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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| 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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Apartheid and architecture -- South Africa.
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Apartheid and architecture. |
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South Africa. |
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Architecture and race -- South Africa.
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Architecture and race. |
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Architecture and state -- South Africa.
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Monuments -- South Africa.
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Architecture and state. |
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Historic buildings -- South Africa.
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Monuments. |
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Historic buildings. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Judin, Hilton, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Judin, Hilton Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins Johannesburg : Wits University Press,c2021 |
| ISBN |
1776146697 (electronic book) |
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9781776146697 (electronic book) |
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1776146700 |
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9781776146703 (electronic book) |
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