Speech

Write a speech for a debate: compelling reasons why, today, there IS NOT a place for statues that revered slave traders of the colonial era.

Only sources you can use:

Branscome E., 2021, ‘Colston’s Travels, or Should We Talk About Statues?’ ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 2021, Vol  6(1), pp1-29, https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133216/1/261-3228-1-PB.pdf

Burch-Brown, J., 2020, ‘Should Slavery’s Statues Be Preserved? On Transitional Justice and Contested Heritage’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Special Issue, pp1-18, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/japp.12485

Chivallon, C., 2001, ‘Bristol and the eruption of memory: making the slave-trading past visible’,  Social & Cultural Geography, Vol 2(3), pp347-363

Choksey, L., 2021, ‘Colston falling’, Journal of Historical Geography, Vol 74, pp77-83

Crisp, L. P., 2022, ‘Breaking Down Colston: Destruction and Transformation in London and Bristol’, The Jugaad Project, https://www.thejugaadproject.pub/home/breaking-down-colston

Kearns, G., 2020, ‘Topple the racists 1: decolonising the space and institutional memory of the university’, Geography, Vol 105(3), pp116-125

Moody, J., 2021, ‘Off the Pedestal: The Fall of Edward Colston’, Jessica Moody, Public History Review, Vol 28, pp1-5, file:///C:/Users/rever/Downloads/7776-Article%20Text-35965-2-10-20210701.pdf

Nasar, S., 2020, ‘Remembering Edward Colston: histories of slavery, memory, and black globality’, Women’s History Review, Vol 29(7), pp1218-1225

Research mixed media sources

‘Revere or Remove? The Battle Over Statues, Heritage and History’, 2 July 2018, Intelligence Squared, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoC2ioaQUQU

Gensburger, S., 19 August 2020, ‘ The paradox of (de)commemoration: do people really care about statues?’ The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/the-paradox-of-de-commemoration-do-people-really-care-about-statues-141807

Gopal, P., 12 June 2020, ‘Removing Statues Doesn’t Erase History – It Makes It’, Huffington Post, https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/statues_uk_5ee33c50c5b609f241c952b7

Habib, S., 23 June 2021, ‘Histories of Empire and Colonialism: Whose Statues? Whose Stories?’ Our Shared Cultural Heritage blog, https://sharedculturalheritage.wordpress.com/2021/06/23/histories-of-empire-and-colonialism-whose-statues-whose-stories/

Olusoga, D., 8 June 2020, ‘The toppling of Edward Colston’s statue is not an attack on history. It is history’, the Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/edward-colston-statue-history-slave-trader-bristol-protest

Peacock, C., 29 June 2021, ‘A meaningful debate about statues is happening – the government just doesn’t seem to be taking part’, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/a-meaningful-debate-about-statues-is-happening-the-government-just-doesnt-seem-to-be-taking-part-162806

Sargeant, P., 18 August 2017, ‘Why Do Statues Become Touchstones For Political Struggle?’ Huffington Post, https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/philip-seargeant/statues-america_b_17781376.html

Young, G., 1 June 2021, ‘Why every single statue should come down’, the Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/01/gary-younge-why-every-single-statue-should-come-down-rhodes-colston

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