Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 318 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction / Hilton Judin -- Part one: lands -- Land dispossession and the ghosts of the Medupi Power Station / Faeeza Ballim -- A community journey: return to Juliwe Cemetery in Roodepoort, Johannesburg / Eric Itzkin -- Public memory and transformation at Constitution Hill and Gandhi Square in Johannesburg / Temba John Dawson Middelmann -- Ejaradini: notes toward modelling black gardens as a response to the coloniality of museums / MADEYOULOOK -- Part two: buildings -- Johannesburg Central Police Station and the photograph as evidence / Sally Gaule -- The persistence of Robben Island: abolition and the prison museum / Kelly Gillespie -- The Apartheid Pass Office in Johannesburg and a heritage of destruction / Hilton Judin -- Indian trading, Art Deco and urban modernity in a segregated town: Jubliee House in Krugersdorp / Arianna Lissoni and Roshan Dadoo -- An uncertain heritage and resistance: transforming the Drill Hall in Johannesburg / Barbara Morovich and Pauline Guinard -- Part three: statues, as monuments -- Creating spaces of memorialisation: New Deville Wood (France) and SS Mendi (South Africa) / Yasmin Mayat and Brendan Hart -- Re-historicising credo Mutwa's Kwa Khaya Lendaba Cultural Village in Soweto / Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Tara Weber -- Facing (down) the coloniser? The Mandela statue at Cape Town's city hall / Cynthia Kros -- 'Where's our monument?' commemorating Indian indentured labour in South Africa / Goolam Vahed -- Decolonisation, monuments, and a new architectural language / Nnamdi Elleh |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Apartheid and architecture -- South Africa
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Architecture and race -- South Africa
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Architecture and state -- South Africa
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Monuments -- South Africa.
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Historic buildings -- South Africa
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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Apartheid and architecture
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Architecture and race
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Architecture and state
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Historic buildings
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Monuments
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South Africa
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Judin, Hilton, editor.
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ISBN |
1776146697 |
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9781776146697 |
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1776146700 |
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9781776146703 |
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