Desire Lines: Space, memory and identity in the post-apartheid city (The Architext Series)

This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act. Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, Desire Lines addresses the innovative strategies that have emerged in the practice of defining, identifying and developing heritage sites. In a unique multi-disciplinary approach, contributions are featured from a broad spectrum of fields, including the built environment and public culture and education. Showcasing work from tour operators and museum curators alongside that of university-based scholars, this book is a comprehensive and singularly authoritative volume that charts the development of new and emergent public cultures in post-apartheid South Africa through the making and unmaking of its urban spaces. This pioneering collection of essays and case studies is an indispensable guide for those working within or studying heritage practice. Introduction: Space, Memory And Identity In The Post-apartheid City / Nick Shepherd And Noëleen Murray -- Planning Fictions : The Limits Of Spatial Engineering And Governance In A Cape Flats Ghetto / Steven Robins -- Manenberg Avenue Is Where It's Happening / Images By David Lurie From The Collection Cape Town Fringe, Manenberg Avenue Is Where It's Happening -- Remaking Modernism : South African Architecture In And Out Of Time / Noëleen Murray -- Engaging With Difference : Understanding The Limits Of Multiculturalism In Planning In The South African Context / Vanessa Watson -- Missing In Khayelitsha / Tobias Hecht -- Memory, Nation Building And The Post-apartheid City : The Apartheid Museum In Johannesburg / Lindsay Jill Bremner -- Picturing Cape Town / Marwaan Manuel, Odidi Mfenyana, Nondumiso Ncisana -- Memory And The Politics Of History In The District Six Museum / Ciraj Rassool -- A Second Life : Museums, Mimesis, And Narratives Of The Tour Guides Of Robben Island / Harry Garuba -- Social Institutions As Places Of Memory And Places To Remember : The Case Of The Ottery School Of Industries / Azeem Badroodien -- Living In The Past : Historic Futures In Double Time / Lynn Meskell. On A Knife-edge Or In The Fray : Managing Heritage Sites In A Vibrant Democrcy / Abdulkader I. Tayob -- Leaving The City : Gender, Pastoral Power And The Discourse Of Development In The Eastern Cape / Premesh Lalu -- The World Below : Post-apartheid Urban Imaginaries And The Bones Of The Prestwich Street Dead / Nick Shepherd And Christian Ernsten -- Transit Spaces : Picturing Urban Change / Text By Matthew Barac, Images By David Southwood -- Paths Of Nostalgia And Desire Through Heritage Destinations At The Cape Of Good Hope / Martin Hall And Pia Bombardella -- Museums On Cape Town's Township Tours / Leslie Witz -- Public Reflections / Njabulo S. Ndebele -- A Renaissance On Our Doorsteps / John Matshikiza -- Afterword: Lines Of Desire / Martin Hall. Edited By Noëleen Murray, Nick Shepherd & Martin Hall. The Book Began As A Series Of Workshops Jointly Convened By The Project On Public Pasts And The Research Project On The Archaeology Of Cape Town. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "This collection investigates cities as sites of memory and desire (and of fear and forgetting); as contested spaces given to plays of power and privilege, identity and difference. How have the profound social and political transformations and the release of energies in South Africa post-1994 been written into its cities and public spaces?" "Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Postapartheid City addresses the innovative strategies that have emerged in the sphere of public culture in postapartheid South Africa. The case studies pay particular attention to how these strategies relate to contests over heritage practices in community museums, tourism and other memory projects. The book explores attempts to recast heritage in contemporary South Africa as well as the conditions of constraint under which newer cultural practices and representations have emerged."--Jacket Ground-breaking multi-disciplinary new study of heritage practice in South Africa from native practitioners and scholars following the implementation of the National Heritage Resources Act