ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how sites of monumental destruction may be reanimated as socially significant "living monuments". Places of monumental destruction pose particular challenges for discourses of memory, precisely because monumental things are perceived and experienced as durable entities. The significance of the Jubilee Cross as a powerful counter-monument was once again borne out during the ceremonial reopening of the new bridge in 2004. Unlike the bridge, a monumental object originally constructed as part of the material infrastructure of the city, the monumental icon of Catholic Christianity does not hold the possibility of becoming a multi-valent monument. Catholics and non-Catholics in Bosnia have protested against the presence of the giant cross. In 2005 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially recognized the new bridge as a significant site of World Heritage, repositioning it within a globalized heritage landscape.
