TY - BOOK ID - 85355464 TI - The leopard, the lion, and the cock : colonial memories and monuments in Belgium PY - 2019 SN - 9461662807 9462701792 9789462701793 9789462701793 9462701792 9461665210 PB - Leuven : Leuven University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Belgium KW - History. KW - Monuments - Belgium - Public opinion KW - Memorials - Belgium - Public opinion KW - Public opinion - Belgium - History - 20th century KW - Opinion publique KW - Mémoire KW - Monument historique KW - Mémorial KW - Histoire KW - Colonie KW - Belgique KW - Belgium - Colonies - Public opinion - History - 20th century KW - Monuments KW - Memorials KW - Public opinion KW - Public opinion. KW - History KW - 1900-1999 KW - Opinion, Public KW - Perception, Public KW - Popular opinion KW - Public perception KW - Public perceptions KW - Judgment KW - Social psychology KW - Attitude (Psychology) KW - Focus groups KW - Reputation KW - Commemorations KW - Historic sites KW - Memorialization KW - Historical monuments KW - Architecture KW - Sculpture KW - Public sculpture KW - Statues KW - colonialism KW - memory KW - culture and empire KW - monuments KW - the Belgian Congo KW - Walloon identity KW - Belgian history and culture KW - postcolonialism KW - Flemish identity UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85355464 AB - The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been for long underappreciated, and only recently have European countries started to acknowledge not having come to terms with decolonisation. In Belgium, the past two decades have witnessed a growing awareness of the controversial episodes in the country's colonial past. This volume examines the long-term effects and legacies of the colonial era on Belgium after 1960, the year the Congo gained its independence, and calls into question memories of the colonial past by focusing on the meaning and place of colonial monuments in public space. The book foregrounds the enduring presence of 'empire' in everyday Belgian life in the form of permanent colonial markers in bronze and stone, lieux de mémoires of the country's history of overseas expansion. By means of photographs and explanations of major pro-colonial memorials, as well as several obscure ones, the book reveals the surprising degree to which Belgium became infused with a colonialist spirit during the colonial era. Another key component of the analysis is an account of the varied ways that both Dutch- and French-speaking Belgians approached the colonial past after 1960, treating memorials variously as objects of veneration, with indifference, or as symbols to be attacked or torn down. The book provides a thought-provoking reflection on culture, colonialism, and the remainders of empire in Belgium after 1960. ER -