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The Fighting Irish of Toronto: Sport and Irish Catholic Identity at St Michael's College, 1906–1916
Simplex free adaptive tree fast sweeping and evolution methods for solving level set equations in arbitrary dimension
Courting the First Nations Vote: Ontario’s Grand River Reserve and the Electoral Franchise Act
Patient–clinician information engagement increases treatment decision satisfaction among cancer patients through feeling of being informed
“Maintaining the connexion”: Orangeism in the British North Atlantic World, 1795–1844
'Putting up your Dukes': Statues, social memory and Duke Paoa Kahanamoku
Public statues that commemorate the lives and achievements of athletes are pervasive and influential forms of social memory in Western societies. Despite this important nexus between cultural practice and history making, there is a relative void of critical studies of statuary dedicated to athletes. This article will attempt to contribute to a broader understanding in this area by considering a bronze statue of Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian Olympian, swimmer and surfer, at Waikīkī, Hawaii. This prominent monument demonstrates the processes of remembering and forgetting that are integral to acts of social memory. In this case, Kahanamoku's identity as a surfer is foregrounded over his legacy as a swimmer. The distillation and use of Kahanamoku's memory in this representation is enmeshed in deeper cultural forces about Hawaii's identity. Competing meanings of the statue's symbolism indicate its role as a 'hollow icon', and illustrate the way that apparently static objects representing the sporting past are in fact objects of the present