Debates on memory politics and counter-memory practices in South Africa in the 1990s

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dc.contributor.authorGrunebaum, Heidi
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-10T08:25:19Z
dc.date.available2018-10-10T08:25:19Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractMemory politics are often regarded as the �soft� issues contested in the aftermath of political and social upheaval. Yet critical public debates on memory, justice, impunity and reconciliation in South Africa prompted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process suggest otherwise. I offer a partial review of some of the key themes and critical debates on justice, reconciliation and memory in the 1990s, followed by a discussion of the spatial practices of the Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory (DACPM) whose multilayered social pedagogy and activist repertoire of the transitional period challenged the terms of the political transition and the scope of the TRC. The debates on the TRC and the practices of the DACPM constitute but a glimpse into the significance of memory-work for now forgotten terrains of civil activist intervention, contestation and practice.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGrunebaum, H. (2018). Debates on memory politics and counter-memory practices in South Africa in the 1990s. Education as Change, 22(2): #3777en_US
dc.identifier.issn1947-9417
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/3777
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/4098
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherUNISA Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectMemory-worken_US
dc.subjectPracticeen_US
dc.subjectPublicen_US
dc.subjectSpaceen_US
dc.subjectPostapartheiden_US
dc.subjectPedagogyen_US
dc.titleDebates on memory politics and counter-memory practices in South Africa in the 1990sen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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