Remembering Marikana: Public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town
| dc.contributor.author | Becker, Heike | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 06/11/2018 09:45 | |
| dc.date.available | 06/11/2018 09:45 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article investigates the role played by cultural initiatives in urban struggles in South Africa, and the emergence of public art to assert the right to the city. I explore how artistic� activist interventions engage an understanding of social justice and the right to the city in provocative visual and performance art. I demonstrate how such interventions reflect Lefebvre�s conceptualisation of the city as a space to be inhabited in an active process, which critically includes its re-imagination. The paper focuses on creative interventions in Cape Town that confronted the city�s genteel public space with the second and third anniversary of the shooting of 34 striking miners at Marikana on August 16 2012. I argue that bringing the commemoration of the massacre into the public urban space � where post-apartheid Cape Town exhibits its claim to cosmopolitanism � challenges the politics of space in South Africa. I asked, how these cultural initiatives articulate claims through reimagining the city how they engage with the intertwined politics of culture and class followed by both the city and the nation�state, and how the artistic practices contest urban citizenship in contemporary South Africa. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Becker, H. (2018). Remembering Marikana: public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town. Social Dynamics, Article in Press. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0253-3952 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2018.1503905 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/4188 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_US |
| dc.rights | This is the post-print version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2018.1503905 | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
| dc.subject | Marikana | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cape Town | en_US |
| dc.subject | Public art | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rhodes Must Fall | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tokolos Stencils | en_US |
| dc.title | Remembering Marikana: Public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |