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

这是一个多学科项目，旨在对当今法国和英国与殖民主义有关的雕像以及由此引发的许多辩论和可能性进行首次系统和比较研究。我们的研究团队由殖民和后殖民时期的英国和法国的历史学家、历史地理学家、法律学者和艺术历史学家组成，我们打算创建一个在线数字资料库，其中将包括文字、视觉和声音记录，这些记录将共同有助于制作位于当地但与国际联系起来的殖民雕像传记。为此，我们将绘制英国和法国所有有争议的雕像的地图，然后确定法国和英国(包括海外领土)的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在一起，标志着它们突然进入公众意识，并整理聚集在它们周围的各种声音和手势。我们将制定法律、法规和权威机构，管理和监督这些地点周围的行动和叙述。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遗址投资的一系列团体的意见--从地方议会到负责保护遗产的官员，再到社区活动家和各种治理人员(例如。警察)。这样收集的材料将由团队成员以及批判性遗产研究、艺术和法律研究的专家以及艺术历史学家进行分析。由此产生的数据和分析将在一个双语的互动网站上系统地呈现，该网站将允许跨时间和跨多个地点的模式可视化。因此，我们采取了一种对当地敏感但在全球范围内比较的方法，使用一个多学科工具包，并应用数字技术，我们的目标是一方面建立一个与重要的文化和政治发展有关的公共记录储存库，并成为一个为未来寻找创造性解决方案的工具。这包括地方议会、博物馆、参与管理和保护历史遗迹和文物的政府部门以及社区积极分子。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，这些受众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.