Contested Urban Spaces

Ulrike Capdepón is a researcher at the Center for Cultural Inquiry, University of Konstanz, Germany, and will be a DAAD-Professor at the CUCSH of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research interests include memory studies and human rights in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

Sarah Dornhof is a research fellow at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. Her current research examines contemporary art in relation to cultural memory and archival practice in Morocco. Her fields of interest are postcolonial and gender studies.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Contested Memory in Urban Space.- Part I: Approaching contested urban memoryscapes.- Chapter 2: (In)visibile Monuments. What Makes Monuments Controversial?.- Chapter 3: Australian Welcome Walls and Other Sites of Networked Migrant Memory.- Chapter 4: Negotiating binaries in curatorial practice: modality, temporality, and materiality in Cape Town's community-led urban history museums.- Chapter 5: Contesting Sensory Memories: Smithfield Market in London.- Part II: Decentered Memories.- Chapter 6: Across the Atlantic. Silences and Memories of Nazism in Remote Lands (Eldorado, Misiones).- Chapter 7: [De]colonial Memory Practices in Germany's Public Space.- Chapter 8: Splinters between Memory and Globalization: Cosmic Generator Installation by Mika Rottenberg in Münster at Skulptur Projekte 2017.- Part III: Fallen Monuments.- Chapter 9: The Empty Pedestal: Artistic Practice and Public Space in Luanda.- Chapter 10: They Took Him Away but It Was Like He Was StillAround: Can New York City Move Beyond the Legacy of J. Marion Sims?.- Chapter 11: Disgraced Monuments: Burying and Unearthing Lenin and Lyautey.- Part IV: Traces of Violence.- Chapter 12: Urban Memory after War: Ruins and reconstructions in post-Yugoslav cities.- Chapter 13: Monumentality, Forensic Practices, and the Representation of the Dead: the Debate about the Memory of the Post-Civil War Victims in the Almudena Cemetery, Madrid.- Chapter 14: The Mass Grave and the Memorial. Notes from Mexico on Memory Work as Contestation of Contemporary Terror.