Anxious Politics: Contesting Fantasies Surrounding the Removal of Statues of Slavery and the Confederacy.
The summer of 2020 saw a global mobilization protesting the murder of George Floyd, during which statues glorifying white supremacy were toppled. Drawing on the narratives surrounding the removal of the Colston statue in Bristol and the Confederacy statues in New Orleans and Charlottesville, the pap...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 1 - 13 |
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