5 - Housing Cape Town’s Forgotten Dead: Conflict in the Post-apartheid Public Sphere
Corresponding Author(s) : Noëleen Murray
Afrique et développement,
Vol. 35 No 4 (2010): Afrique et développement
Résumé
Le 28 mai, le bulletin d’information des cadres de direction de la Cape Town Partnership Company annonçait une « cérémonie interconfessionnelle à Prestwich Place [sic] » pour « consacrer » un nouvel ossuaire dont la construction venait de s’achever dans le district central des affaires du Cap. L’annonce plaçait l’Ossuaire à côté d’autres initiatives et évènements organisés en partenariat, telles que le Harvest Festival, l’initiative Creative Cape Town et la modernisation de la Gare du Cap et la Grande Parade gérés par le Partenariat et le City Improvement District. La construction de l’Ossuaire visait à commémorer et à clore les contestations soulevées par la réapparition de lieux de sépulture dans la ville notée depuis 2004 au Cap. Présenté comme un
« partenariat réussi » entre le Prestwich Place Project Committee, la Ville du Cap, la South African Heritage Resources Agency, le District Six Museum and Heritage Western Cape, cet acte symbolique de clôture a été salué comme une percée en ce qui concerne la pratique en matière de patrimoine, de la part des praticiens, tout comme des autorités municipales. Dans cet article, nous visitons l’espace de l’Ossuaire et l’exposition qui y est associée dans la ville, et nous réfléchissons sur la relation entre l’espace de vie et l’espace d’inhumation au Cap. Suivant le parcours officiel de l’exposition, nous marquons un temps d’arrêt pour joindre nos propres notes – une série d’interventions morcelées qui troublent la surface lisse du confinement. Nous mettons à profit l’expérience de la marche pour réfléchir sur l’architecture de la clôture.
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- Cape Town before and after the group areas act’,. MA in Public and Visual Culture, Department of History, University of the Western Cape (UWC).
Les références
Bryant, G., 2004, ‘Projecting Modern Culture: “Aesthetic Fundamentalism” and Modern Architecture’ in M. Hvattum and C. Hermansen, eds Tracing Modernity,Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City, London: Routledge, pp. 68-80.
Bailey, C., 2005, ‘Memory of City Slaves Honoured at Service’, in Cape Argus, 28 April 2005.
Baudrillard, J., 2005 [1968], The System of Objects, London: Verso.
Fraser, N., 1990. ‘Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy’ in Social Text No. 25/26, pp.56-80.
Gosling, M., 2005, ‘Prestwich Skeletons to be Reburied, But No Research Allowed – Who They Were will Never be Known’ in Cape Times, Monday, 14 Nov 2005, p.6.
Green, L. and Murray, N., 2004/5, ‘Life Space and Burial Space in the Post- apartheid City”, in Green, L. and Murray, N. (Guest Editors) Journal for Islamic Studies Vols 24 and 25 Burial Grounds: Sacred Sites and Heritage in Post- Apartheid Cape Town, pp. 4-16.
Hall, M., 2009, ‘New Knowledge and the University’ Anthropology Southern Africa, 32 ( (1&2) FORUM, PP 69-76.
Henri, Y. and Grunebaum, H., 2004, ‘Re-historicising Trauma: Reflections on Violence and Memory in Current-day Cape Town’, unpublished paper.
Jonker, J., 2005, ‘The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005’, M.Phil. Thesis, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town.
Lefebvre, H., 1996, Writings on Cities, (trans). Kofman, E, ed., Lebas, E., Oxford: Blackwell.
Lefebvre, H., 1991, (trans) Nicholson-Smith, D. The Production of Space, Oxford: Blackwell.
Legassick, M, and Rassool, C., 2000, Skeletons in the Cupboard: South African Museums and the Trade in Human Remains, 1907-1917, South African Museum, Kimberley McGregor Museum.
Le Grange, L., 2007, Architect’s Perspective, Exhibition Panel Text Installation at Prestwich Memorial, Green Point, Cape Town.
Malan, A., 2003, Prestwich Place: Exhumation of Accidentally Discovered Burial Ground in Green Point Cape Town [Permit no 80/03/06/001/51].
Malan, A., 2004/5, ‘Contested Sites: Negotiating New Heritage Practice in Cape Town’ in Journal for Islamic Studies, Vols 24 and 25, pp.17-54.
Meersman, B., 2011, ‘Coffee give the spirits a lift’ in The Mail and Guardian, Friday, April 15 to 20, p.13.
Murray, N., Shepherd, N., Hall, M., 2007, Desire Lines, Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-apartheid City, London: Routledge, ArchiText Series.
Murray, N., 2007, ‘Remaking Modernism; South African Architecture in and Out of Time’, in N. Murray et al., pp. 59-85.
Murray, N., 2006, ‘Reframing the “Contemporary”, Architecture and the Postcolony’ in T.Deckler, A.Graupner and H.Rasmuss, eds. Contemporary Architecture in a Landscape of Transition, Cape Town: Double Storey, pp. 4–8.
Murray, N., 2004/5, ‘Cape Town’s Tana Baru Burial Ground: Wasteland or Prime Property?’ Journal for Islamic Studies, Vols 24 and 25, pp. 55-77.
Mustapha, A.R., 2008, ‘The Public Sphere in 21st Century Africa: Broadeing the Horizons of Democratization, Paper presented at Codesria 12th General Assembly, Yaounde, Cameroun, 7-11 December.
Orange Kloof City Improvement District (CID), 2008, ‘Prestwich Remains Blessed and Laid to Rest at Prestwich Memorial in Green Point’, Publicity Material, Sunday, 18 May 2008.
Parnell, S., 2007, ‘Urban Governance in the South: The Politics of Rights and Development’ in K. Cox, M.Louw, J.Robinson, eds, A Handbook of Political Geography, London: Sage.
Shepherd, N., Ernsten, C., 2007, ‘The World Below:Post-apartheid Urban Imaginaries and the Bones of the Prestwich Street Dead’ in N. Murray et al., 2007, pp. 215-232.
Shepherd, N., 2007, ‘Archaeology Dreaming: Post-apartheid Urban Imaginaries and the Bones of the Prestwich Street Dead’, Journal of Social Archaeology, Vol.7 No. 1, pp. 5-30.
Soudien, C., 2008, ‘Memory in the Remaking of Cape Town’ in B. Bennett, C. Julius and C. Soudien, eds, City. Site. Museum. Reviewing memory practices at the District Six Museu, Cape Town: District Six Museum.
Staff Reporter, 2005, ‘Memorial Park for Prestwich Bones’ in Cape Argus, Monday, 14 November 2005, p. 5.
Tayob, A, 2004/05, ‘Muslim Public Claiming Heritage in Post-Apartheid Cape Town’, in Journal for Islamic Studies, Special Edition: Burial Grounds: Sacred Sites and Heritage in Post-Apartheid Cape Town, Vols 24 & 25, pp. 78-104.
TRUTH Coffecult, http://www.truthcoffee.com/ (last accessed 26 June 2011). Weeder, M.I., 2006, ‘The Palaces of Memory: A Reconstruction of District One,
Cape Town before and after the group areas act’,. MA in Public and Visual Culture, Department of History, University of the Western Cape (UWC).