Public Consultation and Local Democracy in Re-naming Processes
Start time: 11:30 / End time: 13:00 / Date: 06 Feb 2025 / Venue: SLSJ Events Space, Ground Floor School of Law & Social Justice Open to: Any UOL students / Any UOL staff / General Public Type: Seminar Cost: Contact: For more information contact SLSJ Marketing, Recruitment and Events Team at slsjmret@liverpool.ac.uk Booking: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-law-and-social-justice-university-of-liverpool/t-moxnazl
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Debates about whether to remove, rename or 'retain and explain' monuments, buildings and streets play an important part in contemporary disputes about the construction and meaning of history. These debates are also contributing to a significant cultural re-assessment of Britain's colonial and slave-trading past. Phase 1 of the this research, funded by the Society of Legal Scholars, examined legal processes around the renaming of a car park and square named after Sir John Hawkins (regarded as England's first slave trader) in Chatham, Kent and Plymouth. Building on from this initial research, we are now exploring sites in a further three locations: London, Liverpool and Glasgow. In this phase 2 of the project, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme SRG, we will analyse how local government legal processes are responding differently to controversies about the commemoration of controversial historical figures in the cityscape. Our particular interest lies in the extent to which these processes facilitate the participation of stakeholders, particularly local citizens and how/in what forms such participation could bring about a more transformative understanding on all sides of often anguished debates about contested heritage in the urban landscape. Whilst phase 2 is at the initial stages we will reflect on our research to date and what it tells us about the extent to which law and legal processes might navigate contestation about the memorialisation of controversial historical figures.
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