En monumental debatt

Abstract There was a widespread debate thoughout the western world that treated public monuments and Norway was among one of those contries. The three most debated cases in this debate was tied to the monuments representing Winston Churchill, Ludvig Holberg and Carl von Linné. All three had different accusations: Churchill was accused of being racist and being a personification over the british colonialism and imperialism, Holberg was primarily accused of having economic interests in the Danish-Norwegian slave trade and Linné was seen as a founder of modern racism on the basis of his work in human systematics with hierarchical undertones. The main aim of this thesis is to show how arguments…