Statuy pod gilotynę
Statues to Get the Axe
Author(s): Marcin DarmasSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Studies in violence and power, Sociology of Politics, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Wydział Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: statue, French Revolution;the Republic;violence;slavery;racism;decolonisation;guillotine;
Summary/Abstract: This text is a multi-faceted analysis – economic, symbolic, and ideological – of the destruction of monuments commemorating white historical figures such as Josephine de Beauharnais and Victor Schœlcher in the summer of 2020 in French overseas departments. Violence, racism, the logics of repentance, and revolutionary elements indicate the existence of a significant crisis in the Fifth Republic and, perhaps, announce a new order. The text also contains the hypothesis that acts of vandalism are part of the global tendency to reject the colonial past.
Journal: Stan Rzeczy
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 241-260
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Polish