Choksey, Lara;
(2021)
Colston falling.
Journal of Historical Geography
, 74
pp. 77-83.
10.1016/j.jhg.2020.07.007.
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Abstract
On June 7th, 2020, the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol City Centre was pulled down by an anonymous group of Black Lives Matter protestors following a global uprising against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. This article combines a first-person account of the build-up to the statue falling and its aftermath with reflections on some of the broader debates, historical and current, around public monuments, state violence, and collective life.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Colston falling |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhg.2020.07.007 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.07.007 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10182162 |
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