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"""This invaluable work unpacks the complexities of colonial and war monuments' signifiers, histories, and affects in Algeria and France. Monuments Decolonized is a groundbreaking textual and visual call for a 'transformative action.'"" —Samia Henni, McGill University, author of Architecture of Counterrevolution ""Susan Slyomovics not only provides an innovative analysis of French colonialism and its aftermath in Algeria through memorials, but also complicates current debates on the future of colonial statues elsewhere, including the US. Monuments Decolonized is a mosaic of fascinating examples that coalesce into a big narrative, asking heady questions about heritage, patrimony, 'nostalgeria,' re-use, appropriation, and erasure."" —Zeynep Çelik, Columbia University, author of Empire, Architecture, and the City ""Monuments Decolonized assembles a magnificent array of ethnographic, visual, and historical materials tracing the deaths and afterlives of France's monuments erected in French-colonized Algeria. By studying these monuments' lives from their origins to the present, Susan Slyomovics has set a new and inspiring benchmark in settler-colonial studies and monument studies."" —Mia Fuller, University of California, Berkeley, author of Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism"

"""Monuments Decolonized assembles a magnificent array of ethnographic, visual, and historical materials tracing the deaths and afterlives of France's monuments erected in French-colonized Algeria. By studying these monuments' lives from their origins to the present, Susan Slyomovics has set a new and inspiring benchmark in settler-colonial studies and monument studies.""--Mia Fuller, University of California, Berkeley, author of Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism ""Susan Slyomovics not only provides an innovative analysis of French colonialism and its aftermath in Algeria through memorials, but also complicates current debates on the future of colonial statues elsewhere, including the US. Monuments Decolonized is a mosaic of fascinating examples that coalesce into a big narrative, asking heady questions about heritage, patrimony, 'nostalgeria, ' re-use, appropriation, and erasure.""--Zeynep Çelik, Columbia University, author of Empire, Architecture, and the City ""This invaluable work unpacks the complexities of colonial and war monuments' signifiers, histories, and affects in Algeria and France.Monuments Decolonized is a groundbreaking textual and visual call for a 'transformative action.'""---Samia Henni, McGill University, author of Architecture of Counterrevolution"

"""This invaluable work unpacks the complexities of colonial and war monuments' signifiers, histories, and affects in Algeria and France.Monuments Decolonized is a groundbreaking textual and visual call for a 'transformative action.'""—–Samia Henni, McGill University, author of Architecture of Counterrevolution ""Susan Slyomovics not only provides an innovative analysis of French colonialism and its aftermath in Algeria through memorials, but also complicates current debates on the future of colonial statues elsewhere, including the US. Monuments Decolonized is a mosaic of fascinating examples that coalesce into a big narrative, asking heady questions about heritage, patrimony, 'nostalgeria,' re-use, appropriation, and erasure.""—Zeynep Çelik, Columbia University, author of Empire, Architecture, and the City ""Monuments Decolonized assembles a magnificent array of ethnographic, visual, and historical materials tracing the deaths and afterlives of France's monuments erected in French-colonized Algeria. By studying these monuments' lives from their origins to the present, Susan Slyomovics has set a new and inspiring benchmark in settler-colonial studies and monument studies.""—Mia Fuller, University of California, Berkeley, author of Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism"

"""This invaluable work unpacks the complexities of colonial and war monuments' signifiers, histories, and affects in Algeria and France. Monuments Decolonized is a groundbreaking textual and visual call for a 'transformative action.'""—–Samia Henni, McGill University, author of Architecture of Counterrevolution ""Susan Slyomovics not only provides an innovative analysis of French colonialism and its aftermath in Algeria through memorials, but also complicates current debates on the future of colonial statues elsewhere, including the US. Monuments Decolonized is a mosaic of fascinating examples that coalesce into a big narrative, asking heady questions about heritage, patrimony, 'nostalgeria,' re-use, appropriation, and erasure.""—Zeynep Çelik, Columbia University, author of Empire, Architecture, and the City ""Monuments Decolonized assembles a magnificent array of ethnographic, visual, and historical materials tracing the deaths and afterlives of France's monuments erected in French-colonized Algeria. By studying these monuments' lives from their origins to the present, Susan Slyomovics has set a new and inspiring benchmark in settler-colonial studies and monument studies.""—Mia Fuller, University of California, Berkeley, author of Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism"

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Susan Slyomovics is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of four books, the most recent of which is How to Accept German Reparations (2014).

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