On Statues: Renegotiating Colonial Legacies

Renegotiating Colonial Legacies: The Controversy around Jan Pieterszoon Coen’s Statue in Hoorn, the Netherlands  Written by Ava Abtahi  Preface  Last year, in my “Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology” Bachelor’s, I took some courses in the minor “Cultural Memory of War and Conflict”. It combined memory studies and heritage studies, which has made me especially interested …