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.