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Falling monuments, reluctant ruins : the persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid / edited by Hilton Judin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apartheid and architecture--South Africa.
- Apartheid and architecture.
- Architecture and race--South Africa.
- Architecture and race.
- Architecture and state--South Africa.
- Architecture and state.
- Monuments--South Africa.
- Monuments.
- Historic buildings.
- South Africa.
- Historic buildings--South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- 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
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Judin, Hilton Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins
- ISBN:
- 1776146697
- 9781776146697
- 1776146700
- 9781776146703
- Publisher Number:
- 99988611901
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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