Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying
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2022-02
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SAGE
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This article traces a pedagogical trajectory in South African higher education that started in engineering education and leads to walking-as-research. Situated on District Six, a well-known site of apartheid forced removals, a cartographic and diffractive methodology is utilized to trace the development of this pedagogy, as well as walks that have emerged out of mapping the site by means of geographic information system (GIS). We develop propositions related to a practice we call counter-surveying, and we trace two walks of District Six with people who are connected to the site. Recognizing the hauntological power of walking, we walk into the past and diffractively read the walks together with South African history, geomatics education, and posthumanist theory. Premised on relational ontologies, we attend to the ghosts of District Six and explore different ways of interrogating issues of land and education, while opening up a space for Otherness.
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Cartography, Posthumanism, Walking methodology, Counter-surveying, Transdisciplinary activism
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Motala, S., & Bozalek, V. (2022). Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(2), 244–256. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211042349