Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2025
Unruly Monuments has taken you, dear reader, on a walk among picturesque landscapes and knowledge-generating museums, to see the splendor of imperial displays, inside the anatomy of the traveler's archive via postcards and touristic encounters, to a time of rupture and displacement inside Partition refugee camps, and finally to the cinema. The analysis of form— whether in terms of landscapes, museums, performative displays, postcard images, travel encounters, refugee camps, or films—has shown how an archive of presences and absences shapes the monument. At every instance, we have seen how order was created at the monument and the ways in which disorder ensued or could be read into the failure of the order itself. We paid attention to the everyday, the routine, untangled knowable public transcripts, illuminated strategic excisions and hidden transcripts, juxtaposed pieces of evidence that had not yet been analyzed in conjunction, read archival material against the grain, and found archival layers in unfamiliar places. I began each chapter by inserting myself, either as a scholar, a tourist, a young child, a schoolgirl, or as a lover of literature and film songs, in order to show that we are deeply interconnected with our objects and spaces of study. My hope is that in these connections and the questions they engender, perchance, we may find unbounded, unruly, interdependent, heterogenous futures that help us move away from bounded homogeneity. This examination has also, one hopes, led to a broader understanding of how different publics create, challenge, and relate to monuments and also how varying groups may find a place in them as unruly but heterogenous, hopeful beings.
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