Cast in stone: statues and memories of empire in post-imperial France and Britain

这是一个多学科的项目，旨在对当今法国和英国的殖民主义相关法规进行首次系统和比较研究，以及由此产生的许多争论和可能性。随着由殖民和后殖民英国和法国，历史地理学家，和法律的学者和艺术历史学家的历史学家组成的研究团队，我们打算创建一个在线数字存储库，将包括文本，视觉和听觉记录，将一起借给自己的生产位于本地，但殖民雕像的国际连接传记。为此，我们将绘制英国和法国所有有争议的雕像，然后在法国和英国（包括海外领土）确定20座雕像进行详细研究。对于这些雕像，我们将挖掘它们的建造历史，将它们在生活和变化的社区中的感知拼凑起来，标记它们进入公众意识的爆发，并整理聚集在它们周围的声音和手势。我们将绘制出管理和监督这些网站周围的行动和叙述的法律、法规和权威机构。在四个选定的案例研究中，我们将更进一步，进行深入的档案研究，并系统地记录在这些网站上投资的一系列团体的意见-从地方议会，负责保护遗产的官员，社区活动家和各种治理人员（例如，政府官员）。警察）。收集到的材料将由小组成员以及批判性遗产研究、艺术和法律的研究以及艺术史学家进行分析。由此产生的数据和分析将在一个双语互动网站上系统地展示，该网站将允许跨时间和跨多个地点的模式可视化。因此，采取一种对当地敏感但全球比较的方法，使用多学科工具包，并应用数字技术，我们的目标是一方面创建一个与重要文化和政治发展有关的公共记录库，以及为未来寻找创造性解决方案的工具。这项研究的过程将需要与与每个网站相关的一系列利益相关者进行积极和有计划的合作和他们的保护。这包括地方议会、博物馆、参与管理和保护历史遗址和文物的政府机构以及社区活动家。这些互动将产生数据，完善分析类别，并将研究结果带给更广泛的受众，他们将被邀请成为该项目的合作者而不是研究对象。

This is a multi-disciplinary project which proposes to conduct the first systematic and comparative study of statues related to colonialism in present-day France and Britain, and the many debates and possibilities that arise out of them. With a research team consisting of historians of colonial and post-colonial Britain and France, historical geographers, and legal scholars and art historians, we intend to create an online digital repository that will comprise of textual, visual and audible records that will together lend themselves to the production of locally situated but internationally connected biography of colonial statues . We shall do so by mapping all disputed statues in Britain and France, then identifying 20 statues in France and Britain (including overseas territories) for detailed study. For these statues, we shall excavate the history of their construction, piece together their perception among living and changing communities, mark their eruption into public consciousness and collate the range of voices and gestures that gather around them. We shall map out the laws, regulations and authoritative institutions that manage and police actions and narratives around these sites. In four selected case studies, we shall go further, undertaking intensive archival research and systematically recording the views of a range of groups invested in such sites - from local councils, to officials charged with the preservation of heritage, to community activists and various governance personnel (eg. the police). The material so gathered will be subjected to analysis by team members and also by specialists in critical heritage studies, art and legal studies, and art historians. The resulting data and analysis will be systematically presented in a bi-lingual, interactive website which will allow visualisation of patterns across time and across multiple locations. Thus taking a locally sensitive but globally comparative approach, using a multi-disiplinary toolkit, and applying digital technologies we aim to move create a public repository of records relating to important cultural and political developments on the one hand, and a tool for finding creative solutions for the future.The process of this research will entail active and planned collaboration with a range of stakeholders related to each of the sites and their preservation. This includes local councils, museums, government offices involved with the management and preservation of historical sites and artefacts, and community activists. These interactions will produce data, refine analytical categories and take the research findings to a wider audience, who will be invited to be collaborators rather than subjects of research in this project.