The Post-Communist Monuments Project is devoted to the scholarly
study of post-Communist monuments and memorials. The project
includes a database with information on monuments and memorials from
1989 to 2010 in twenty-six post-Communist states, as well as studies
of individual sites and countries.
I
study the geographical nature of identity and identifications, and I
am especially concerned with the political representation and
construction of race, ethnicity, and nationality. My current research
examines the political representation of women and ethnic minority
groups, the use of monuments and memorials for (re)constructing national identities, and various issues of electoral
geography, political parties, and governance.
At McGill, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, and an Associate Member of the Department of Political Science. I am also a member of the Quebec-wide Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship.
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GEOG
217: Cities in the Modern World
GEOG
420: Memory, Place, and Power
GEOG
417/617: Urban/Advanced Urban Geography
Department of Geography
McGill University
805 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0B9
phone: (514) 398-4111 fax: (514) 398-7437
benjamin.forest [at] mcgill.ca