Editorial
Editorial
Critiques
Critiques
Monumental Stories: Historical Memory and Commemoration in Canada*
David Dean, Carleton University | Last year, cartoonist David Parkins re-imagined America’s Statue of Liberty as a Canadian. A maple leaf adorns her crown and she has a hockey stick tucked under her arm. American cartoonist Mike Luckovich...
Critiques
Negotiating the Edge: Understanding Public Space in Post-transformation South Africa Through the Lens of History and architecture
Debbie Whelan, University of Lincoln | Introduction Fed-up action on litter, Taking back the city’s streets, Vagrants defile post office are all newspaper articles penned in recent years speaking of Pietermaritzburg, the City of...Praxis
Praxis
Memorialisation as Public History: A Practitioner’s Note
Radhika Hettiarachchi | The 26-year Sri Lankan war ended with a resounding military victory for the Government forces. At the end, the blitzkrieg saw indiscriminate shelling of a sliver of land in Mullaitivu district, where thousands of civilians...Review
Review
The Search for Alternative Archives for Public Space in South Asia
Archit Guha | Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India’s High‐Tech City. By Smriti Srinivas. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001 Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City. By Ranjani Mazumdar. Minneapolis:...One Artist
From the Remnants of Reality: The Art and Practice of Suresh Kumar G.
Pithamber R. Polsani | Artists are labourers who toil for their ideas Suresh Kumar G. In the morning slot on the second day of the ART Marathon, in the middle of the gallery on a green drop cloth, stood a 30-year-old bicycle. When the bell rang...Histories
Histories of the Immediate Present
Histories of the Immediate Present series will cover biennales, art fairs, design exhibitions, literary festivals and performance art events of seminal importance in South Asia. The goal of this...Vernacular Design
