Desire Lines: Space, memory and identity in the post-apartheid city

by Murray; Nodleen

• ISBN13: 9780415701303
• ISBN10: 0415701309
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This ground-breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act. Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island,Desire Linesaddresses the innovative strategies that have emerged in the practice of defining, identifying and developing heritage sites. In a unique multi-disciplinary approach, contributions are featured from a broad spectrum of fields, including the Built Environment, Public Culture and Education, showcasing work from tour operators and museum curators alongside that of university-based scholars, making this book comprehensively and singularly authoritative in charting the development of new and emergent public cultures in post apartheid South Africa through the making and unmaking of its urban spaces. This pioneering collection of essaysand case studies is sure to become an indispensable guide for those working within or studying heritage practice globally, setting the benchmark in this contested field.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Space, memory and identity in the postapartheid city

Planning Fictions

Planning Fictions; The Limits of Spatial Engineering and Governance in a Cape Flats Ghetto

'Manenberg Avenue is Where it's Happening'

Remaking Modernism; South African Architecture In and Out of Time

Engaging with Difference; Understanding the Limits of Multiculturalism in Planning in the South African Context

Missing in Khayelitsha

Sites of Memory and Identity

Memory, Nation Building and the Postapartheid City; The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg

Picturing Cape Town

Memory and the Politics of History in the District Six Museum

A Second Life; Heritage, Museums, Mimesis, and the Tour Guides of Robben Island

Social Institutions as 'Places of Memory' and 'Places to Remember'; The Case of the Ottery School of Industries

Living in the Past; Historic Futures in Double Time

Burial Sites

On a Knife-Edge or in the Fray; Managing Heritage Sites in a Vibrant Democracy

Leaving the City; Gender, Pastoral Power and the Discourse of Development in the Eastern Cape

The World Below; Postapartheid, Urban Imaginaries and the Bones of the Prestwich Street Dead

Transit Spaces

Transit Spaces; Picturing Urban Change

Paths of Nostalgia and Desire through Heritage Destinations at the Cape of Good Hope

Museums on Cape Town's Township Tours

Public Reflections

A Renaissance on our Doorsteps

Afterword

Lines of Desire

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