| Description |
xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
The Architext series |
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Architext series.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction; Space, memory and identity in the postapartheid city -- Nick Shepherd and Noëleen Murray -- I. Planning Fictions -- 1. Planning Fictions; The limits of spatial engineering and governance in a Cape Flats ghetto -- Steven Robins -- 2. ¿Manenberg Avenue is where it¿s happening¿ -- Images by David Lurie from the collection Cape Town Fringe, Manenberg Avenue is where it¿s Happening -- 3. Remaking Modernism; South African architecture in and out of time -- Noëleen Murray -- 4. Engaging with Difference; Understanding the limits of multiculturalism in planning in the South African context -- Vanessa Watson -- 5. Missing in Khayelitsha -- Tobias Hecht -- II. Sites of Memory and Identity -- 6. Memory, Nation Building and the Postapartheid City; The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg -- Lindsay Jill Bremner -- 7. Picturing Cape Town -- Marwaan Manuel, Odidi Mfenyana, Nondumiso Ncisana -- 8. Memory and the Politics of History in the District Six Museum -- Ciraj Rassool -- 9. A Second Life; Heritage, museums, mimesis, and the tour guides of Robben Island -- Harry Garuba -- 10. Social institutions as ¿Places of Memory¿ and ¿Places to Remember¿; The case of the Ottery School of Industries -- Azeem Badroodien -- 11. Living in the Past; Historic futures in double time -- Lynn Meskell -- III. Burial Sites -- 12. On a Knife-edge or in the Fray; Managing heritage sites in a vibrant democracy -- Abdulkader I Tayob -- 13. Leaving the City; Gender, Pastoral Power and the Discourse of Development in the Eastern Cape -- Premesh Lalu -- 14. The World Below; Postapartheid urban imaginaries and the bones of the Prestwich Street dead -- Nick Shepherd and Christian Ernsten -- IV. Transit Spaces -- 15. Transit Spaces; Picturing Urban Change -- Text by Matthew Barac and images by David Southwood -- 16. Paths of Nostalgia and Desire through Heritage Destinations at the Cape of Good Hope -- Martin Hall and Pia Bombardella -- 17. Museums on Cape Town's township tours -- Leslie Witz -- 18. Public Reflections -- Njabulo S. Ndebele -- 19. A Renaissance on our Doorsteps -- John Matshikiza -- Afterword; Lines of Desire -- Martin Hall |
| Summary |
"This collection investigates cities as sites of memory and desire (and of fear and forgetting); as contested spaces given to plays of power and privilege, identity and difference. How have the profound social and political transformations and the release of energies in South Africa post-1994 been written into its cities and public spaces?" "Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Postapartheid City addresses the innovative strategies that have emerged in the sphere of public culture in postapartheid South Africa. The case studies pay particular attention to how these strategies relate to contests over heritage practices in community museums, tourism and other memory projects. The book explores attempts to recast heritage in contemporary South Africa as well as the conditions of constraint under which newer cultural practices and representations have emerged."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture and society -- South Africa.
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Memory -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
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Public spaces -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
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| SUBJECT |
South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1994- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004238
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| Author |
Hall, Martin, 1952-
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Murray, Noëleen, 1968-
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Shepherd, Nick, 1967-
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| LC no. |
2006100812 |
| ISBN |
0415701309 (hbk.) |
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0415701317 (paperback) |
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9780415701303 (hbk.) |
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9780415701310 (paperback) |
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