Abstract: Abstract In South Africa, as elsewhere, historical memory is a social thing. It takes on object properties through memorials, museums, archives, and other sites of memory. Some movement leaders, academics, and ordinary citizens took issue with apartheid-era memory projects, while others fiercely defended them. The memorial landscape in democratic South Africa is thus an unsettled collective space where claims about the past—what happened and what should we make of it—are challenged just as quickly as they are asserted. This chapter discusses these challenges and assertions as historical memory making endeavors to establish norms and rituals of collective remembrance.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-12-15
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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