纪念碑是保护伞:殖民主权与坎普尔纪念井纪念碑的解构

IF 1.3 2区 历史学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY
Swati Chattopadhyay
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这篇文章讨论了最近关于纪念碑的争论中存在的相互矛盾的主权观点。它转向了一座著名的纪念碑,这座纪念碑是为了纪念1857-59年印度兵叛乱中丧生的英国人而建造的:坎普尔(坎普尔)纪念井纪念碑。纪念碑矗立在一口井旁,那里埋葬着被印度兵杀害的200名英国妇女和儿童的尸体。纪念碑周围建造了一个大型景观围栏,只有欧洲游客才能进入该遗址。1947年8月15日,印度从英国统治下独立的那一天,一群人占领了遗址,并破坏了纪念碑。大部分纪念碑随后被拆除,搬到了坎普尔营地内一个更隐蔽的地方。英国的利益相关者希望不留下它以前身份的痕迹,把注意力集中在那些不能被抹去的、赋予这座纪念碑的意义上。基于霍布斯关于激情是主权的关键要素的观点,这篇文章认为,纪念碑可以被看作是一种庇护——一种堕落——它转移了人们的目光,而不是让人们专心地看。
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Memorial as aegis: Colonial sovereignty and the unmaking of the Kanpur Memorial Well Monument

This article addresses competing visions of sovereignty that underwrite recent debates about monuments. It turns to a well-known monument built to commemorate the loss of British lives in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857–59: the Kanpur (Cawnpore) Memorial Well Monument. The memorial stood over a well in which the bodies of 200 British women and children killed by Indian sepoys lay buried. A large landscaped enclosure was built around the memorial and only European visitors were given access to the site. On August 15, 1947, the day of Indian independence from British rule, a crowd overran the site and defaced the monument. Much of the monument was subsequently dismantled and moved to a more secluded site within the Kanpur cantonment. The desire among the British stakeholders to leave no trace of its former identity focused attention on those aspects of meaning ascribed to the monument that could not be erased. Building on the Hobbesian idea of passion as a key element of sovereignty, this article argues that the monument may be viewed as an aegis — an apotropaion — that deflects gaze more than it enables attentive looking.

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期刊介绍: A well-established international quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields, including environmental history. As well as publishing original research papers of interest to a wide international and interdisciplinary readership, the journal encourages lively discussion of methodological and conceptual issues and debates over new challenges facing researchers in the field. Each issue includes a substantial book review section.
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