154 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/154/ Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:05:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CH_Symbol_Light_Bkg@10x-32x32.png 154 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/154/ 32 32 Habib Bourguiba Statue in Tunis https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/habib-bourguiba-statue-in-tunis?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=habib-bourguiba-statue-in-tunis Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:30:00 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// After 30 years since the statue of Tunisia’s first president Habib Bourguiba was removed, it returned to central Tunis in June 2016. The return of the statue was intended to be a grand gesture of patriotism, around which all Tunisian’s could unite. It became clear, however, that the move was a divisive one: whilst serving […]

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]]> After 30 years since the statue of Tunisia’s first president Habib Bourguiba was removed, it returned to central Tunis in June 2016. The return of the statue was intended to be a grand gesture of patriotism, around which all Tunisian’s could unite. It became clear, however, that the move was a divisive one: whilst serving as a patriotic reminder of Tunisia’s trail-blazing modernisation in the mid 20th century, it attracted criticism based on Bourguiba’s controversial authoritarian rule and what statement its return made about the future of post-revolutionary Tunisia

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]]> Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei City https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/chiang-kai-shek-memorial-hall-in-taipei-city?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chiang-kai-shek-memorial-hall-in-taipei-city Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:28:00 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei City, Taiwan opened to the public in 1980, five years after Taiwan’s first president Chiang Kai-shek’s death, in honour of Chiang’s legacies after he established rule over Taiwan from 1949 onwards. Since Taiwan’s democratization in the late 1980s, the Memorial Hall and many of Chiang Kai-shek’s statues have […]

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]]> The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei City, Taiwan opened to the public in 1980, five years after Taiwan’s first president Chiang Kai-shek’s death, in honour of Chiang’s legacies after he established rule over Taiwan from 1949 onwards. Since Taiwan’s democratization in the late 1980s, the Memorial Hall and many of Chiang Kai-shek’s statues have become sites of heated contestation. In 2007, the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall was renamed Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall by the Democratic Progressive Party government. This renaming was reversed in 2009 by the nationalist Kuomintang government. In 2017, the Transitional Justice Act was passed in Taiwan which stipulates removal, renaming, or repurposing of authoritarian symbols. Ever since then, the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, along with other Chiang statues in the public space, have been undergoing a new process of transformation.

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