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The third chapter takes up the remaking of the city in the image of white national purity in the mid-twentieth century. To accomplish this the apartheid Regime had to remove the bodies of the impure or racially mixed from the center of the city, push them outside the visual frame of the city and raze their neighborhoods. The chapter takes up the perspective of those who were removed. “Forced removals” became a shared disruption in the mediations of the past, a way to mark spatial distinctions of inside and outside. It is to this group I turn in asking the question how does the built environment of the city, where inside and outside are maintained, continue to shape embodied mediations of memory and memory work? One of the goals of this chapter is to develop an embodied approach to memory in order to challenge the now common view that history and memory, remembering and forgetting, exist in binary opposition. |
