Christian Ernsten
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Ernsten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ernsten |
| SIGNATURE | ERNSTEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toxic love. Curating polluted river heritage in the Netherlands
This article examines how the climate emergency makes histories of pollution central to the heritage management of the Geul valley in the Netherlands. Our investigation combined forms of walking research through the valley, historical and policy research, design workshops (river ateliers) in 2024 and 2025. At the core of this article lies a methodological interest in doing heritage research differently in the context of the climate crisis. Our ex…
Walking as Embodied Research
In recent years, walking has emerged as a methodological tool and as a conceptually exciting point of departure across a range of disciplines and practices. This volume explores walking as a form of embodied research practice that offers fresh perspectives on key contemporary debates and areas of interest. These include the climate emergency and the debate around the Anthropocene, decolonial thinking and the struggle for social justice, feminist …
Colonial Heritage and Urban Transformation in the Global South
Epilogue
Resurfacing Colonial Dead
Conclusion
Decolonial Diary
In this essay, we examine poignant moments that arose while walking the approximately 80 km Hoerikwaggo Trail linking the Cape of Good Hope to the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Our walks, styled as walking seminars, started in 2013. Two local and global events have resonated strongly with the walking seminar project, and have lent a sense of urgency to the debates and experiences on the trail: the events of #RhodesMustFall in 2014, and those o…
Colonial Heritage and Urban Transformation in the Global South
Utopia and dystopia in the post-apartheid city
This essay is concerned with the shaping, the framing and the fashion- ing of the discourse on urban futures in Cape Town, South Africa. I outline the multiple sources and diverse elements that feed into this discourse: specifically, metropolitan theory and local experience. Focusing on the praxis of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, I argue that there is a convergence between the language of crisis and the vision that…
The “Bigger Picture”
Truth as historical recapitulation
In this essay, I reflect on the massive and dramatic re-emergence of the dead of Cape Town’s District One in 2003, and its aftermath. I discuss how the resurfacing of these ancestors helps us understand how heritage discourses operate in Cape Town, and how their agency forces us to consider what it means to live in the city during post-apartheid urban renewal. I argue that the agency of the District One dead hinges on their exposure of the intern…
The Ruins of Cape Town’s District Six
Following the Ancestors
The Ruins of Cape Town’s District Six
Colonial Heritage and Urban Transformation in the Global South
Following the Ancestors
Truth as historical recapitulation
In this essay, I reflect on the massive and dramatic re-emergence of the dead of Cape Town’s District One in 2003, and its aftermath. I discuss how the resurfacing of these ancestors helps us understand how heritage discourses operate in Cape Town, and how their agency forces us to consider what it means to live in the city during post-apartheid urban renewal. I argue that the agency of the District One dead hinges on their exposure of the intern…
Following the Ancestors
The Ruins of Cape Town’s District Six
Truth as historical recapitulation
In this essay, I reflect on the massive and dramatic re-emergence of the dead of Cape Town’s District One in 2003, and its aftermath. I discuss how the resurfacing of these ancestors helps us understand how heritage discourses operate in Cape Town, and how their agency forces us to consider what it means to live in the city during post-apartheid urban renewal. I argue that the agency of the District One dead hinges on their exposure of the intern…
The “Bigger Picture”
Utopia and dystopia in the post-apartheid city
This essay is concerned with the shaping, the framing and the fashion- ing of the discourse on urban futures in Cape Town, South Africa. I outline the multiple sources and diverse elements that feed into this discourse: specifically, metropolitan theory and local experience. Focusing on the praxis of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, I argue that there is a convergence between the language of crisis and the vision that…
Epilogue
Resurfacing Colonial Dead
Conclusion
Decolonial Diary
In this essay, we examine poignant moments that arose while walking the approximately 80 km Hoerikwaggo Trail linking the Cape of Good Hope to the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Our walks, styled as walking seminars, started in 2013. Two local and global events have resonated strongly with the walking seminar project, and have lent a sense of urgency to the debates and experiences on the trail: the events of #RhodesMustFall in 2014, and those o…
Colonial Heritage and Urban Transformation in the Global South
Colonial Heritage and Urban Transformation in the Global South
Walking as Embodied Research
In recent years, walking has emerged as a methodological tool and as a conceptually exciting point of departure across a range of disciplines and practices. This volume explores walking as a form of embodied research practice that offers fresh perspectives on key contemporary debates and areas of interest. These include the climate emergency and the debate around the Anthropocene, decolonial thinking and the struggle for social justice, feminist …
Toxic love. Curating polluted river heritage in the Netherlands
This article examines how the climate emergency makes histories of pollution central to the heritage management of the Geul valley in the Netherlands. Our investigation combined forms of walking research through the valley, historical and policy research, design workshops (river ateliers) in 2024 and 2025. At the core of this article lies a methodological interest in doing heritage research differently in the context of the climate crisis. Our ex…
History (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Cape (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · South African History and Culture (5 works)