Falling monuments, reluctant ruins : the persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid / Hilton Judin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Judin, Hilton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-apartheid era--South Africa.

Post-apartheid era.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2021]

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.

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:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781776146703

1776146700

OCLC:

1255233464