ESR Maitri Dore published an article in the Failed Architecture on how the right wing in India is making vigorous attempts to rewrite Indian history. The project to assert the narrative of a Hindu golden age is concomitant with painting Muslims as invaders. With the excavation…
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Figure 1. Liepiņš, Aldis, Latvian Culture Days, Ireland, May 5, 2013. Digital image. Latvian National Encyclopedia. By Kristīne Ziediņa “People are on the move in almost all parts of the world on an unprecedented scale, whether in a refugee crisis or through a long-term urbanization…
Figure 1: Entrance to the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Image courtesy of KGM, https://kgm.rw/about/photo-gallery/ By Georgie Sullivan Pierre Nora has suggested that there are liéux de memoire (sites of memory) because there is no longer milieux de mémoire (real environments of memory)(Nora, 1984). Ideas about history,…