Counter-celebration
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A counter-celebration or counter-observance or alternative commemoration can be a form of protest of a holiday's commemoration by challenging its dominant narrative with an alternative event, often representing a social cause such as indigenous rights, and involving symbolic subversion in the style of culture jamming.[1][2]
Counter-celebrations
[edit]- Australia Day: Day of Mourning and Invasion Day or Survival Day
- Christmas: Festivus
- Columbus Day: Indigenous Peoples' Day
- Thanksgiving: National Day of Mourning and Unthanksgiving Day
- International Workers' Day: Loyalty Day
- Yom Ha'atzmaut: Nakba Day
- Victory over Japan Day: Shūsen-kinenbi
- Vietnamese Reunification Day: Black April
References
[edit]- ↑ Allen, Chadwick (2012-10-01). Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies. University of Minnesota Press. doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816678181.003.0002. ISBN 978-0-8166-7818-1.
- ↑ Simon, Roger I. (2005), "The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary", in Simon, Roger I. (ed.), The Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning, and Ethics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 14–31, doi:10.1007/978-1-137-11524-9_2, ISBN 978-1-137-11524-9, retrieved 2023-05-13
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