Tonya Davidson teaches sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the co-editor of Seasonal Sociology (with Ondine Park) and Ecologies of Affect (with Ondine Park and Rob Shields).

Through a series of tours of the monuments of Ottawa, this book argues that rather than instructing people on what to know about history, monuments generate feelings about the past in the present. As ambivalent sites, monuments allow for the generation of competing feelings: nostalgia, dissent, indifference.