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Imagining the city : Memories and cultures in Cape Town

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Imagining the city : Memories and cultures in Cape Town

Sujet

, mémoire, culture urbaine, société urbaine, urbanité, interaction sociale, imaginaire, violence urbaine, histoire urbaine, Cape Town, Le Cap, Field Sean, Meyer Renate, Swanson Felicity

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Abstract from the publisher :
 
Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, they are also constructed through popular imagination and spaces of representation. Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town presents an array of oral and visual histories drawn from people, who live, work and creatively express themselves in the city.

This book explores the apartheid legacies of the city and demonstrates that cultural life flourished through people’s resilience in spite of adversity. Authors move beyond apartheid history to analyse the reflective ways in which people are coming to terms with that history through memory work, performance and memorialisation. Other chapters provide contemporary views of local interactions such as moments of urban violence or people negotiating the challenges of a globalised world.

Whatever the context, this book traces social and cultural interactions over time and across city spaces that speak directly to the senses, memories and imagining of Cape Town.

Imagining the City makes an important contribution to public discourse about a vision for, and ownership of the city by affirming the memory of its inhabitants, and by hinting at the work that can, and should still be done in foregrounding memory and culture in the re-imagination of Cape Town as a city.
 
Contents :
 
 Foreword - Mike van Graan
Introduction - Sean Field and Felicity Swanson

Disruptive memories :
1 Sites of memory in Langa - Sean Field
2 So there I sit in a Catch-22 situation’: Remembering and imagining trauma in the District Six Museum - Sofie M.M.A. Geschier
3 Between waking and dreaming: Living with urban fear, paradox and possibility - Renate Meyer
4 The quickest way to move on is to go back’: Bomb blast survivors’ narratives of trauma and recovery - Anastasia Maw
5 Where is home? Transnational migration and identity amongst Nigerians in Cape Town - Iyonawan Masade

Resilient cultures :
6 ‘Catch with the eye’: Stories of Muslim food in Cape Town - Gabeba Baderoon
7 Julle kan ma New York toe gaan, ek bly in die Manenberg’: An oral history of jazz in Cape Town from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s - Colin Miller
8 Da struggle kontinues into the 21st century: Two decades of nation-conscious rap in Cape Town - Ncedisa Nkonyeni
9 Changing nature: working lives on Table Mountain, 1980–2000  - Louise Green
10 ‘Language of the eyes’: Stories of contemporary visual art practice in Cape Town - Thabo Manetsi and Renate Meyer
11 ‘Die SACS kom terug’: Intervarsity rugby, masculinity and white identity at the University of Cape Town, 1960s–1970s  - Felicity Swanson   Dr Sean Field is the Director of the Centre for Popular Memory in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town
Renate Meyer is a researcher and archival officer with the Centre for Popular Memory
Felicity Swanson is a training co-ordinator with the Centre for Popular Memory  

Créateur

NC

Éditeur

HSRC Press

Date

2007

Format


248

Type

Ouvrage

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