Remembering Difficult Pasts

Monuments and Public Memory in Europe
How does memory both divide and unite an increasingly globalized European populace? This book presents a range of case studies across Europe to better understand how countries have grappled with their difficult pasts whether traumatic, controversial, exclusionary, propagandistic or even embarrassing through the built environment.
Monuments and memorials, as symbols built intentionally into the environment, are important frames for understanding how narratives of the past are constructed and reconstructed over time. Europes memorial landscape is rife with debate about which pasts to remember, how to remember them, and whose job it is to remember.This book presents a range of case studies from the UK to Ukraine to better understand how European societies have grappled with their difficult pasts whether traumatic, controversial, exclusionary, propagandistic or even embarrassing through the built env