Gender and Feminisms Research Network
The libidinal lives of statues
We were delighted to welcome Dr Rahul RaoÌý(Reader in International Political Thought at the University of St Andrews) to give the GFRN/q°×С½ãÂÛ̳ 2024 annual lecture, on 'The libidinal lives of statues'.Ìý
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The Lives of Statues - Adored, Ignored, Abhorred?
In follow-up to this lecture, we present a conversation withÌýRao and inclusive heritage specialist Sean Curran.
In this episode, Rao and Curran expand on the central question of the lecture: what is it about statues that has spooked people in the past enough to arouse in them the impulse to destroy?
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