This special issue explores the global politics of monuments and memory through the lens of activist movements, contested public histories, and creative commemorative practices. It examines how traditional monuments are increasingly challenged by grassroots memory activism that seeks to reclaim historical narratives from below. The articles engage with a diverse array of cases, from Indigenous interventions in Brazil and Australia to dance performances in Bristol and Holocaust memorials in Ukraine, highlighting new, ephemeral, and participatory forms of memorialization. The issue offers a reconsideration of how societies remember, interrogate, and reshape the past in pursuit of justice and inclusion.
Contributors: Claire Antone Payton, Bonita Bennett, Claire Brennan, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Inge Dornan, Sergio Gardenghi Suiama, Bonny Ibhawoh, Jane Komori, Alex Lichtenstein, Jessica Moody, Amber N. Nickell, Ana Stevenson, Andor Skotnes, Rosemary Spooner, Lúcia Sá, Susan Walker, Daniel J. Walkowitz, Hannah Whittaker
