From Charlottesville to Cape Town, from Santiago to Sydney, we have recently witnessed
protesters demanding that symbols of racist or colonial pasts be dismantled and that we talk …

Public debates and controversies over monuments, memorials, and place names have
become contentious focal points for struggles over historical memory and social identity …

Lying off the west coast of Africa, the Cape Verde archipelago consists of ten islands, nine of
which are inhabited (Figure 0.1). Santiago, together with Fogo, Maio and Brava constitute …

In this introductory chapter, we outline three key points of distinction in our examination of
geographies of commemoration in a digital world. First, we discuss our characterization of …

In this introduction, we reflect on the relationship between religion and memory, a subfield
that should, as we argue, become more visible within memory studies. First, we show how …

Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past examines key political events of the past
decade, to analyse the relationship between the representation of certain pasts in …

Decolonising discourses in the field of technology and design research argue that we need
to move away from the universalising 'grand narratives' of knowledge production and focus …

The Nazi Party launched a series of ambitious building programs soon after seizing power
intended to achieve a comprehensive spatial reorganization of Germany. As part of these …

Place is everywhere as geography, location, territory, and landscape permeates everyday
encounter. In contrast, memory is embedded in the physical setting as the burgeoning …

How do refugees experience home not just in the country of settlement but also along their
journeys of flight? Departing from theories that see home as something which is left behind …