Public History and Culture in South Africa: Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space

Author:   Ali Khangela Hlongwane ,  Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2019 ed.
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9783030147488


Pages:   282
Publication Date:   29 April 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ali Khangela Hlongwane ,  Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2019 ed.
Weight:   0.643kg
ISBN:  

9783030147488


ISBN 10:   3030147487
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   29 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Introduction.- 2. Worker history in the post-apartheid memory/heritage complex: Public art and the Workers' Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg.- 3. Remembering Sharpeville Day and fashioning national narratives: The Human Rights Precinct and the Langa Memorial.- 4. The historical and cultural significance of the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum as a liberation heritage site.- 5. Weaving stories, memories, public history, visual art and place: The June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, Central Western Jabavu, Soweto.- 6. Autobiographic memories of society and the June 1976 uprising.- 7. Traces, spaces and archives, intersecting with memories, liberation histories and storytelling: The Apartheid Museum and Nelson Mandela House Museum.- 8. Concluding remarks: A snippet on voices still crying to be heard.

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Ali Khangela Hlongwane is an honorary professor at the University of South Africa and a researcher at the University of Witwatersrand History Workshop. He has published chapters in the multi-volume The Road to Democracy in South Africa. Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu is Professor of History at the University of South Africa and the author of The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-memories of June 1976 (1998) and African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona: The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (Palgrave, 2017). 

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