Removing monuments to an imperial past is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires
- Written by Katie Pickles, Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, University of Canterbury
ShutterstockThe global furore about the meaning and relevance of statues, memorials and place names from a racist, imperial past presents a special challenge to Aotearoa-New Zealand. In this former colonial outpost we are dealing with a double burden: the memorialisation of unsavoury historical figures, and the fact that they were imported from...