Vakanta piedestaler: En visuell diskursanalys av statyn av Edward Colston i två olika forum
(2022) STVK02 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Statues and monuments from previous centuries have gotten new political relevance as they have become targets of demonstrations and iconoclasm during Black Lives Matter protests throughout 2020. The aim of this paper is to examine how visibility is produced by the display of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, England (1895) in two different forums; the public and the museum. The forum of the statue was analysed using a visual discourse analysis with a Foucauldian theoretical approach that gives both the material, and the social, importance in the understanding of visibilities. Through the categories of assumptions and silences, we can problematize and analyse the truth claims that arise with storage and which produce specific... (More)
- Statues and monuments from previous centuries have gotten new political relevance as they have become targets of demonstrations and iconoclasm during Black Lives Matter protests throughout 2020. The aim of this paper is to examine how visibility is produced by the display of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, England (1895) in two different forums; the public and the museum. The forum of the statue was analysed using a visual discourse analysis with a Foucauldian theoretical approach that gives both the material, and the social, importance in the understanding of visibilities. Through the categories of assumptions and silences, we can problematize and analyse the truth claims that arise with storage and which produce specific worldviews in relation to the history of a city; where subject positions vary from resident to visitor. A discursive struggle between the visibility of the individual/collective in the writing of history can be demonstrated; in the museum, where the collective is given space, and in the public, where the individual's visibility makes it difficult for the collective to become part of what is Bristol's memorial landscape. By highlighting the two forums' production of different types of visibility, the constitutive power of the forum has been shown and made clear. Artefacts can produce different types of visibility of history based on how they are treated through organisation, archiving and contextualization. (Less)
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- author
- Onkenhout, Matilda LU
- supervisor
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- Elsa Hedling LU
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- visual discourse analysis, visibility, statues, Edward Colston, Bristol, Iconoclasm, museums, the public, memorial landscape, Foucault, constitutive power
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9080209
- date added to LUP
- 2022-07-03 08:28:27
- date last changed
- 2022-07-03 08:28:27
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abstract = {{Statues and monuments from previous centuries have gotten new political relevance as they have become targets of demonstrations and iconoclasm during Black Lives Matter protests throughout 2020. The aim of this paper is to examine how visibility is produced by the display of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, England (1895) in two different forums; the public and the museum. The forum of the statue was analysed using a visual discourse analysis with a Foucauldian theoretical approach that gives both the material, and the social, importance in the understanding of visibilities. Through the categories of assumptions and silences, we can problematize and analyse the truth claims that arise with storage and which produce specific worldviews in relation to the history of a city; where subject positions vary from resident to visitor. A discursive struggle between the visibility of the individual/collective in the writing of history can be demonstrated; in the museum, where the collective is given space, and in the public, where the individual's visibility makes it difficult for the collective to become part of what is Bristol's memorial landscape. By highlighting the two forums' production of different types of visibility, the constitutive power of the forum has been shown and made clear. Artefacts can produce different types of visibility of history based on how they are treated through organisation, archiving and contextualization.}},
author = {{Onkenhout, Matilda}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Vakanta piedestaler: En visuell diskursanalys av statyn av Edward Colston i två olika forum}},
year = {{2022}},
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