title: Decomissioning Monuments, Mobilizing Materialities
abstract: New memories emerge in relation to old ones. This means that undermining the power of hegemonic narratives is as crucial a part of memory activism as the bringing of hitherto occluded histories into visibility. This point is made by reference to the many ways in which public monuments have become the target of protest and the destruction of monuments a key feature of regime change. The very material presence of monuments explains why they can cause offense, but also why they provide a platform a