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Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins : The persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid
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Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins : The persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid
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9781776146697
9781776146673
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : Wits University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
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©2021.
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1 online resource (336 pages).
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Summary
This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa's oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Cover
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Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Lands
1 Land Dispossession and the Ghosts of the Medupi Power Station
2 A Community Journey: Return to Juliwe Cemetery in Roodepoort, Johannesburg
3 Public Memory and Transformation at Constitution Hill and Gandhi Square in Johannesburg
4 Ejaradini: Notes Towards Modelling Black Gardens as a Response to the Coloniality of Museums
Part Two: Buildings
5 Johannesburg Central Police Station and the Photograph as Evidence
6 The Persistence of Robben Island: Abolition and the Prison Museum
7 The Apartheid Pass Office in Johannesburg and a Heritage of Destruction
8 Indian Trading, Art Deco Buildings and Urban Modernity in a Segregated Town: Jubilee House in Krugersdorp
9 An Uncertain Heritage and Resistance: Transforming the Drill Hall in Johannesburg
Part Three: Statues, As Monuments
10 Creating Spaces of Memorialisation: New Delville Wood (France) and SS Mendi (South Africa)
11 Re-historicising Credo Mutwa's Kwa Khaya Lendaba Cultural Village in Soweto
12 Facing (Down) the Coloniser? The Mandela Statue at Cape Town's City Hall
13 'Where's Our Monument?' Commemorating Indian Indentured Labour in South Africa
14 Decolonisation, Monuments, and a New Architectural Language
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