De-commemoration

Old photo of historic column being taken apart
Fall of the Vendôme Column and its statue of Napoleon during the Paris Commune, Bruno Braquehais , Place Vendôme, May 16, 1871

De-commemoration is a social phenomenon that regards the destruction or profound modification of material representations of the past in public space, representing the opposite or undoing of memorialization. The precise term was coined by Israeli historian Guy Beiner in 2018.[1][2]

  1. ^ Gensburger, Sarah; Wüstenberg, Jenny; Dauzat, Pierre-Emmanuel; Saint-Loup, Aude de (2023). Dé-commémoration: quand le monde déboulonne des statues et renomme des rues. Paris: Fayard. ISBN 978-2-213-72205-4.
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