Green Point, Globalisation and the Remains of the Prestwich Street Dead

Autor:	Gerard Ralphs
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Cultural heritage Archeology Globalization Politics media_common.quotation_subject Political economy Law Subject (philosophy) Context (language use) Art Colonialism media_common
Zdroj:	Archaeologies. 4:344-352
ISSN:	1935-3987 1555-8622
DOI:	10.1007/s11759-008-9075-7
Popis:	This paper asks how the remains of the Prestwich Street dead may become a shaping force behind efforts to remember slavery and apartheid in a post-apartheid national context. Between 2003 and 2005, thousands of human remains were disinterred from the site of a multi-million Rand development project in Green Point, Cape Town. The bones of the dead the subject of fierce socio-historical and political contestations. This paper briefly explores how colonial and apartheid forces of erasure resulted in the destruction of forms of self-identity, memory and community; and posits three propositions for the self-reconstruction project the remains of the Prestwich Street dead may invoke in the postcolony.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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