CERIDWEN DOVEY. The mapping of indigenous massacres in Australia [New Yorker]

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CERIDWEN DOVEY. The mapping of indigenous massacres in Australia [New Yorker]

Jan 23, 2018

From New York to Cape Town to Sydney, the bronze body doubles of the white men of empire—Columbus, Rhodes, Cook—have lately been pelted with feces, sprayed with graffiti, had their hands painted red. Some have been toppled. The fate of these statues—and those representing white men of a different era, in Charlottesville and elsewhere—has ignited debate about the political act of publicly memorializing historical figures responsible for atrocities. But when the statues come down, how might the atrocities themselves be publicly commemorated, rather than repressed?

The remainder of this article about the project to map the massacres of indigenous Australians, led by historian Lyndall Ryan, can be found in the New Yorker.

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