Global Iconoclasm: Contesting “Official” Mnemonic Landscapes

Professor Michael Ripmeester is Professor of Geographer in the Geography and Tourism Studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, ON. Canada.

Dr. Matthew Rofe is an Urban-Cultural Geographer and serves as the Lead Research Degree Coordinator in UniSA Creative at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia.

Defeating the Panopticon.- Beautiful or Mournful? The Contested Meanings of the Tsunami Museum in the Post-disaster landscape of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.- Decolonize: the Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls World Heritage Site, Engaging the Unspoken Truths.- Ballance and de Belalcázar: What violent action against two statues in New Zealand and Colombia reveals about the political power of landscape.- Will this Kill that?.- Contesting the Memory of Sarajevo.- Acts of ongoing repression? Aboriginal Cultural heritage and landscape protection in Postcolonial Australia.- Do we need to topple Watson?.- Changing the collective narratives of nation and self? 'explorer' and massacre memorials in 21st century Australia.- Ephemeral occupations: Plaza Dignidad and the contestation of Chilean democracy.