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History making and present day politics : the meaning of collective memory in South Africa / edited by Hans Erik Stolten.

Title
History making and present day politics : the meaning of collective memory in South Africa / edited by Hans Erik Stolten.
Publication
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Stolten, Hans Erik.
Description
376 p.; 21 cm.
Subject
  • Apartheid
  • Collective memory > South Africa
  • Geschiedschrijving
  • Natievorming
  • Political culture > South Africa
  • Politieke verandering
  • Sociale verandering
  • South Africa > Historiography
  • Zuid-Afrika
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
History in the new South Africa : an introduction / Hans Erik Stolten -- pt.1. The role of history in the creation of a new South Africa. Thoughts on South Africa : some preliminary ideas / Saul Dubow -- New nation, new history? Constructing the past in post-apartheid South Africa / Colin Bundy -- Truth rather than justice? Historical narratives, gender, and public education in South Africa / Elaine Unterhalter -- Claiming land and making memory : engaging with the past in land restitution / Anna Bohlin -- Reflections on practising applied history in South Africa, 1994-2002 : from skeletons to schools / Martin Legassick -- From apartheid to democracy in South Africa : a reading of dominant discourses of democratic transition / Thiven Reddy -- pt.2. The handling of heritage and the popularising of memory. The politics of public history in post-apartheid South Africa / Gary Baines -- The transformation of heritage in the new South Africa / Christopher Saunders -- Reframing remembrance : the politics of the centenary commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902 / Albert Grundlingh -- Structure of memory : Apartheid in the museum / Georgi Verbeeck -- Building the "new South Africa" : urban space, architectural design, and the disruption of historical memory / Martin Murray -- pt.3. Interpretations of South African history. Whose memory - whose history? The illusion of liberal and radical historical debates / Bernhard Makhosezwe Magubane -- Four decades of South African academic historical writing : a personal perspective / Christopher Saunders -- The role of business under apartheid : revisiting the debate / Merle Lipton -- Afrikaner anti-communist history production in South African historiography / Wessel Visser -- "1922 and all that" : facts and the writing of South African political history / Allison Drew -- A useable past : the search for "history in chords" / Catherine Bu
ISBN
  • 9789171065810 (pbk.)
  • 9171065814 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007398746