Public History and Culture in South Africa

Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-14748-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: African Histories and Modernities

The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is intricately linked to questions of power, liberation and public history in the making and remaking of the South African nation. Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu analyse an array of these liberation heritage sites, including the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, the Apartheid Museum and the Mandela House Museum, foregrounding the work of migrant workers, architects, visual artists and activists in the practice of memorialisation. As they argue, memorialisation has been integral to the process of state and nation formation from the pre-colonial era through the present day.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi

Hlongwane, Ali Khangela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Worker history in the post-apartheid memory/heritage complex: Public art and the Workers' Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg.- 3. Remembering Sharpeville Day and fashioning national narratives: The Human Rights Precinct and the Langa Memorial.- 4. The historical and cultural significance of the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum as a liberation heritage site.- 5. Weaving stories, memories, public history, visual art and place: The June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, Central Western Jabavu, Soweto.- 6. Autobiographic memories of society and the June 1976 uprising.- 7. Traces, spaces and archives, intersecting with memories, liberation histories and storytelling: The Apartheid Museum and Nelson Mandela House Museum.- 8. Concluding remarks: A snippet on voices still crying to be heard.

Über Autor(innen)

Ali Khangela Hlongwane is an honorary professor at the University of South Africa and a researcher at the University of Witwatersrand History Workshop. He has published chapters in the multi-volume The Road to Democracy in South Africa.
Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu is Professor of History at the University of South Africa and the author of The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-memories of June 1976 (1998) and African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona: The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (Palgrave, 2017).