Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins : The persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Judin, Hilton
Other Authors: G., Sally, Elleh, Nnamdi, Ballim, Faeeza
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Wits University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Monuments.
Historic buildings.
Architecture and state.
Architecture and race.
Apartheid and architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
Historic buildings > South Africa.
Monuments > South Africa.
Architecture and state > South Africa.
Architecture and race > South Africa.
Apartheid and architecture > South Africa.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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

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