Falling monuments, reluctant Ruins : the persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid
Judin, Hilton Ed.
Falling monuments, reluctant Ruins : the persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid - Johannesburg Wits University Press 2021 - xxii,318p.
Contents
LIST OF FIGURES ix
FOREWORD
Muchaparara Musemwa xv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xxiii
INTRODUCTION
Hilton Judin 1
PART ONE: LANDS 11
1.LAND DISPOSSESSION AND THE GHOSTS OF THE MEDUPI
POWER STATION
Faeeza Ballim 13
2. A COMMUNITY JOURNEY: RETURN TO JULIWE CEMETERY
IN ROODEPOORT, JOHANNESBURG
Eric Itzkin 29
3. PUBLIC MEMORY AND TRANSFORMATION AT CONSTITUTION
HILL AND GANDHI SQUARE IN JOHANNESBURG
Temba John Dawson Middelmann 40
4. EJARADINI: NOTES TOWARDS MODELLING BLACK GARDENS
AS A RESPONSE TO THE COLONIALITY OF MUSEUMS
MADEYOULOOK 62
PART TWO: BUILDINGS 81
5. JOHANNESBURG CENTRAL POLICE STATION
AND THE PHOTOGRAPH AS EVIDENCE
Sally Gaule 83
6. THE PERSISTENCE OF ROBBEN ISLAND: ABOLITION
AND THE PRISON MUSEUM
Kelly Gillespie 106
7. THE APARTHEID PASS OFFICE IN JOHANNESBURG
AND A HERITAGE OF DESTRUCTION
Hilton Judin 124
8. INDIAN TRADING, ART DECO AND URBAN MODERNITY IN A
SEGREGATED TOWN: JUBILEE HOUSE IN KRUGERSDORP
Arianna Lissoni and Roshan Dadoo 150
9. AN UNCERTAIN HERITAGE AND RESISTANCE: TRANSFORMING
THE DRILL HALL IN JOHANNESBURG
Barbara Morovich and Pauline Guinard 173
PART THREE: STATUES, AS MONUMENTS 191
10. CREATING SPACES OF MEMORIALISATION: NEW DELVILLE
WOOD (FRANCE) AND 55 MEND/ (SOUTH AFRICA)
Yasmin Mayat and Brendan Hart 193
11. RE-HISTORICISING CREDO MUTWA'S KWA KHAYA
LENDABA CULTURAL VILLAGE IN SOWETO
Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Tara Weber 212
12. FACING (DOWN) THE COLONISER? THE MANDELA STATUE
AT CAPE TOWN'S CITY HALL
Cynthia Kros 234
13. 'WHERE'S OUR MONUMENT?' COMMEMORATING INDIAN
INDENTURED LABOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA
Goolam Vahed 256
14. DECOLONISATION, MONUMENTS, AND A NEW
ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE
Nnamdi Elleh 278
CONTRIBUTORS 299
INDEX 305
9781776146673
Decorative arts
Monuments
South Africa
Apartheid and architecture
Architecture and race
Architecture and state
Historic buildings
720.96809045 / JUD
Falling monuments, reluctant Ruins : the persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid - Johannesburg Wits University Press 2021 - xxii,318p.
Contents
LIST OF FIGURES ix
FOREWORD
Muchaparara Musemwa xv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xxiii
INTRODUCTION
Hilton Judin 1
PART ONE: LANDS 11
1.LAND DISPOSSESSION AND THE GHOSTS OF THE MEDUPI
POWER STATION
Faeeza Ballim 13
2. A COMMUNITY JOURNEY: RETURN TO JULIWE CEMETERY
IN ROODEPOORT, JOHANNESBURG
Eric Itzkin 29
3. PUBLIC MEMORY AND TRANSFORMATION AT CONSTITUTION
HILL AND GANDHI SQUARE IN JOHANNESBURG
Temba John Dawson Middelmann 40
4. EJARADINI: NOTES TOWARDS MODELLING BLACK GARDENS
AS A RESPONSE TO THE COLONIALITY OF MUSEUMS
MADEYOULOOK 62
PART TWO: BUILDINGS 81
5. JOHANNESBURG CENTRAL POLICE STATION
AND THE PHOTOGRAPH AS EVIDENCE
Sally Gaule 83
6. THE PERSISTENCE OF ROBBEN ISLAND: ABOLITION
AND THE PRISON MUSEUM
Kelly Gillespie 106
7. THE APARTHEID PASS OFFICE IN JOHANNESBURG
AND A HERITAGE OF DESTRUCTION
Hilton Judin 124
8. INDIAN TRADING, ART DECO AND URBAN MODERNITY IN A
SEGREGATED TOWN: JUBILEE HOUSE IN KRUGERSDORP
Arianna Lissoni and Roshan Dadoo 150
9. AN UNCERTAIN HERITAGE AND RESISTANCE: TRANSFORMING
THE DRILL HALL IN JOHANNESBURG
Barbara Morovich and Pauline Guinard 173
PART THREE: STATUES, AS MONUMENTS 191
10. CREATING SPACES OF MEMORIALISATION: NEW DELVILLE
WOOD (FRANCE) AND 55 MEND/ (SOUTH AFRICA)
Yasmin Mayat and Brendan Hart 193
11. RE-HISTORICISING CREDO MUTWA'S KWA KHAYA
LENDABA CULTURAL VILLAGE IN SOWETO
Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Tara Weber 212
12. FACING (DOWN) THE COLONISER? THE MANDELA STATUE
AT CAPE TOWN'S CITY HALL
Cynthia Kros 234
13. 'WHERE'S OUR MONUMENT?' COMMEMORATING INDIAN
INDENTURED LABOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA
Goolam Vahed 256
14. DECOLONISATION, MONUMENTS, AND A NEW
ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE
Nnamdi Elleh 278
CONTRIBUTORS 299
INDEX 305
9781776146673
Decorative arts
Monuments
South Africa
Apartheid and architecture
Architecture and race
Architecture and state
Historic buildings
720.96809045 / JUD