Whose History Counts
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Whose History Counts

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  1. 227 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Whose History Counts

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About this book

This book comprises eight essays that consider the politics and polemics of monuments in Africa in the wake of the #RhodesMustFall movement in 2015. The removal of the Rhodes statue from UCT main campus is the pivot on which the discussion of monuments as heritage in South Africa turns. It raised a number of questions about the implementation of heritage policy and the unequal deployment of memorials in the South African and other postcolonial landscapes. The essays in this volume are written by authors coming from different backgrounds and different disciplines. They address different aspects of this event and its aftermath, offering some intensive critique of existing monuments, analysing the successes of new initiatives, meditating on the visual resonances of all monuments and attempting to map ways of moving forward.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Abbreviations & Acronyms
  3. Contributors
  4. 1: Whose History Counts?
  5. 2: Of Definitions and Naming
  6. 3: Language as Source of Revitalisation and Reclamation of Indigenous Epistemologies
  7. 4: The Missing Idiom of African Historiography
  8. 5: Repositioning uMakhulu as an Institution of Knowledge
  9. 6: The long southern African past
  10. 7: The study of earlier African societies before colonial contact in the former Xhalanga magisterial district, Eastern Cape
  11. 8: The Home of Legends Project
  12. 9: Considerations towards establishing equitable stakeholder partnerships for transformation in higher education in South Africa
  13. 10: Allegorical Critiques and National Narratives
  14. 11: Whose History Counts? A conclusion
  15. Appendix 1
  16. Index