Sabine Marschall
Biographic Data
| ID | 636595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabine Marschall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabine |
| FAMILY NAME | Marschall |
| SIGNATURE | MARSCHALL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2761-5649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Preparing German pre‐service teachers in special needs education for school development—Can we do otherwise
Although school development can be viewed as an emerging responsibility of teachers, special needs education in Germany does not leave sufficient room for non‐teaching tasks, leading to a knowledge gap in the professionalisation of pre‐service teachers with regard to school development upon entering the profession. This study focused on the preparedness of pre‐service teachers in school development as a professional task at the end of their initi…
Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement: Migrants and Monuments
I Went Back to my Old School: Nostalgia, Migration and Return in Africa
By examining a case study of skilled African migrants in South Africa, this paper focuses on a neglected geographical area within the international scholarship on migration. Contextualized in the wider scholarship on the personal life experiences of migrants, the current research focuses on the role of personal and social memory as a neglected dimension of the migration experience. Various studies explore memory in relation to migrants’ attempts …
The long shadow of apartheid: A critical assessment of heritage transformation in South Africa 25 years on
Based on insights gained from two decades of research on South African heritage and monuments, this paper critically reflects on the status quo of heritage transformation in South Africa 25 years after the end of apartheid. It assesses new directions in national heritage policy and government strategy in relation to recent developments around post-apartheid heritage and the popular demand for a removal of ‘colonial statues’, which gained impetus …
Memory objects: Material objects and memories of home in the context of intra-African mobility
This article contributes to the intersection of material culture and mobility studies by exploring the role of objects in fostering nostalgia and emotionally linking migrants with their home world. 'Memory objects' are conceptualized as special personal belongings that elicit deliberate or involuntary memories of homeland, home culture, social relations and episodes in one's pre-migration past. Focusing on intra-African migration, the study is ba…
Memory, Migration and Travel
Memory, migration and travel
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the diverse mobility flows, travel patterns and touristic behaviour generated through migration, displacement and diaspora. It advocates a closer integration of research around migrant return visits, diasporic roots tourism and related forms of travel with migration studies and diaspora theory. The book foregrounds memory pr…
Transnational migrant home visits as identity practice: The case of African migrants in South Africa
Monuments and Affordance: Multisensory Bodily Engagements with theLandscape of Memory in South Africa
The “#Rhodes Must Fall” campaign initiated by students at the University of Cape Town in March 2015 sparked a wave of statue defacements across South Africa and gave fresh impetus to the national debate about monuments of the colonial and apartheid era. Far less attention is paid to the pervasive neglect and defacement of post-apartheid commemorative markers and contestation over their meaning. This study advocates a shift from semiotic and discu…
Targeting Statues: Monument "Vandalism" as an Expression of Sociopolitical Protest in South Africa
Inspired by the "Rhodes Must Fall" campaign, this article examines the defacement of statues and commemorative monuments in postapartheid South Africa. The term "vandalism" is problematized and, based on observation, site visits, and media reports, various cases of statue defacement are then discussed. Local events are contextualized in relation to selected postcolonial societies in Africa and other comparative international contexts. The article…
The Heritage of Post-colonial Societies
The role of tourism in the production of cultural memory: The case of ‘Homesick Tourism’ in Poland
Individual and collective forms of memory are driving forces behind the phenomenon of ‘homesick tourism’, the journeys undertaken by German expellees and refugees to their former homes in what is now Poland. Based on a content analysis of travel reports written by homesick tourists, this article applies concepts and theoretical approaches in the field of Memory Studies to the field of tourism, arguing that travelling can be considered an extensio…
Touring memories of the erased city: Memory, Tourism and Notions of 'Home
This paper focuses on survivors and their immediate descendants who travel to places that were once their home, settlements from which they were forcibly removed through political forces, natural or human-made disasters and which are often damaged or even completely erased. These travellers may not regard themselves as 'tourists', or be recognized as such by tourism authorities. The destinations of their journeys may not be declared heritage site…
Travelling down memory lane: Personal Memory as a Generator of Tourism
Journeys undertaken to revisit places associated with one's own life history, including travel in pursuit of happy childhood memories and return trips to places of personal tragedy, are conceptualized as a distinct form of tourism, labelled 'memory trips' or 'personal memory tourism'. The research is theoretically anchored primarily within the field of memory studies and draws from scholarly literature on identity, authenticity and experience. A …
Tourism and remembrance: The journey into the self and its past
The research refines the author's earlier conceptualization of ‘personal memory tourism’, a form of travel motivated by memories of one's own past and focused on the revisiting of sites and destinations associated with key moments in a person's life or the retracing of memorable previous journeys. The concept is compared with and differentiated from overlapping and related types of tourism. Based on some scholarly insights into the functioning of…
Collective Memory and Cultural Difference: Official vs. Vernacular Forms of Commemorating the Past
In all societies, collective memory practices are integral parts of local tradition and culture. While the recent "memory boom" has resulted in a massive international proliferation of commemorative monuments and memorials, not enough attention has been paid to cultural differences in the ways societies remember. By comparing processes of commemoration and memorialization in postapartheid South Africa with selected case studies in the USA, this a…
The Virtual Memory Landscape: The Impact of Information Technology on Collective Memory and Commemoration in Southern Africa
The article considers the impact of new digital technologies and the internet on the process of commemorating the past and memorialising the dead in Southern Africa, with some comparative reference to the developed world context. The theoretical framework is inspired by Wulf Kansteiner's contention that collective memory is the result of the interaction between three overlapping elements – the media of memory, the makers and the consumers or user…
Public holidays aslieux de mémoire: Nation-building and the politics of public memory in South Africa
This article engages with public holidays in post-apartheid South Africa as lieux de mémoire, 'sites of memory' that preserve particular interpretations of historical events and selected heroes for inscription into the collective memory of the nation. It first traces the legislative process that resulted in the official rearrangement of the festive calendar after the 1994 first general elections, exploring the political and pragmatic consideratio…
Tourism and memory
Personal memory tourism’ and a wider exploration of the tourism−memory nexus
This paper investigates the varied intersections between tourism and memory. It begins with a brief consideration of the parallel developments between the emergence of the 'memory boom' and that of the 'tourism boom', as well as the academic fields of memory studies and tourism studies, respectively. Memory is a crucial factor in choosing a destination; it impacts on the tourist experience at the destination and on the sharing of the experience w…
Memory and Identity in South Africa: Contradictions and Ambiguities in the Process of Post-apartheid Memorialization
The article explores commemorative markers as containers of intangible heritage in post-apartheid South Africa, with special reference to the case study of the Duncan Village Massacre memorial that was unveiled in 2008 in the Buffalo City Municipality (Eastern Cape) in memory of the victims of the so-called Duncan Village Massacre of August 1985. This event is an example of many similar cases of apartheid-era township violence, where state securi…
TheSunday TimesHeritage Project: Heritage, the Media and the Formation of National Consciousness
Since the advent of democracy in 1994, the landscape of memory in South Africa has undergone significant changes. While most new monuments, memorials and heritage sites have emerged under the aegis of the government, this article focuses on a private sector initiative, the Sunday Times Heritage Project (STHP), sponsored by the Sunday Times newspaper in celebration of its centenary in 2006. The project involved the installation of 30 small-scale m…
Landscape of Memory: Commemorative monuments, memorials and public statuary in post-apartheid South Africa
Under the aegis of the post-apartheid government, much emphasis has been placed on the transformation and democratisation of the heritage sector in South Africa since 1994. The emergent new landscape of memory relies heavily on commemorative monuments, memorials and statues aimed at reconciliation, nation-building and the creation of a shared public history. But not everyone identifies with these new symbolic markers and their associated interpre…
Commemorating the ‘Trojan Horse’ massacre in Cape Town: The tension between vernacular and official expressions of memory
This paper engages with the process of memorialisation in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on the case study of the so-called Trojan Horse Massacre memorial in Athlone, Cape Town. Unveiled in 2005, this memorial is the latest of a series of attempts to publicly memorialise the three young victims of a local ambush attack organised by the South African security forces in August 1985. The paper investigates how these memorials as cultural expr…
The Memory of Trauma and Resistance: Public Memorialization and Democracy in Post-apartheid South Africa and Beyond
We all grossly underestimated the task of transforming ourselves into a democratic society. Dr Mamphela Ramphele, November 2009 On the occasion of New Year's Eve 2000, celebrating the dawn of the n
Personal memory tourism’ and a wider exploration of the tourism−memory nexus
This paper investigates the varied intersections between tourism and memory. It begins with a brief consideration of the parallel developments between the emergence of the 'memory boom' and that of the 'tourism boom', as well as the academic fields of memory studies and tourism studies, respectively. Memory is a crucial factor in choosing a destination; it impacts on the tourist experience at the destination and on the sharing of the experience w…
Targeting Statues: Monument "Vandalism" as an Expression of Sociopolitical Protest in South Africa
Inspired by the "Rhodes Must Fall" campaign, this article examines the defacement of statues and commemorative monuments in postapartheid South Africa. The term "vandalism" is problematized and, based on observation, site visits, and media reports, various cases of statue defacement are then discussed. Local events are contextualized in relation to selected postcolonial societies in Africa and other comparative international contexts. The article…
Touring memories of the erased city: Memory, Tourism and Notions of 'Home
This paper focuses on survivors and their immediate descendants who travel to places that were once their home, settlements from which they were forcibly removed through political forces, natural or human-made disasters and which are often damaged or even completely erased. These travellers may not regard themselves as 'tourists', or be recognized as such by tourism authorities. The destinations of their journeys may not be declared heritage site…
Travelling down memory lane: Personal Memory as a Generator of Tourism
Journeys undertaken to revisit places associated with one's own life history, including travel in pursuit of happy childhood memories and return trips to places of personal tragedy, are conceptualized as a distinct form of tourism, labelled 'memory trips' or 'personal memory tourism'. The research is theoretically anchored primarily within the field of memory studies and draws from scholarly literature on identity, authenticity and experience. A …
Tourism and memory
Transnational migrant home visits as identity practice: The case of African migrants in South Africa
Memory objects: Material objects and memories of home in the context of intra-African mobility
This article contributes to the intersection of material culture and mobility studies by exploring the role of objects in fostering nostalgia and emotionally linking migrants with their home world. 'Memory objects' are conceptualized as special personal belongings that elicit deliberate or involuntary memories of homeland, home culture, social relations and episodes in one's pre-migration past. Focusing on intra-African migration, the study is ba…
Tourism and remembrance: The journey into the self and its past
The research refines the author's earlier conceptualization of ‘personal memory tourism’, a form of travel motivated by memories of one's own past and focused on the revisiting of sites and destinations associated with key moments in a person's life or the retracing of memorable previous journeys. The concept is compared with and differentiated from overlapping and related types of tourism. Based on some scholarly insights into the functioning of…
Visualizing Memories: The Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto
This article focuses on the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Orlando West, Soweto, as one of the most significant new heritage sites completed since the advent of the post-apartheid era. Like other new commemorative ventures in South Africa, this memorial is dedicated to a key event in the history of the struggle for liberation, paying tribute to the victims of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and particularly to the young boy Hector Pieterson, who immediate…
Commemorating 'Struggle Heroes: Constructing a Genealogy for the New South Africa
This article focuses on new commemorative monuments, memorials and statues in post‐apartheid South Africa. The identification, preservation, celebration and display (not least for tourists) of heritage, especially the heritage of those previously marginalised, are flourishing throughout the country. This article examines how new monuments contribute to constructing new identities in the post‐apartheid context. It will first discuss the perceived …
Articulating Cultural Pluralism through Public Art as Heritage in South Africa
Public art in South Africa today often consists of commemorative art promoted as “heritage” and installed in pursuit of specific sociopolitical goals such as reconciliation and nation-building. Cultural artifacts in the public arena can be important transmission mechanisms for cultural policy and negotiate the representation of different societal groupings in multicultural settings. This article focuses on the case of Durban, a large coastal city…
Collective Memory and Cultural Difference: Official vs. Vernacular Forms of Commemorating the Past
In all societies, collective memory practices are integral parts of local tradition and culture. While the recent "memory boom" has resulted in a massive international proliferation of commemorative monuments and memorials, not enough attention has been paid to cultural differences in the ways societies remember. By comparing processes of commemoration and memorialization in postapartheid South Africa with selected case studies in the USA, this a…
The Memory of Trauma and Resistance: Public Memorialization and Democracy in Post-apartheid South Africa and Beyond
We all grossly underestimated the task of transforming ourselves into a democratic society. Dr Mamphela Ramphele, November 2009 On the occasion of New Year's Eve 2000, celebrating the dawn of the n
The role of tourism in the production of cultural memory: The case of ‘Homesick Tourism’ in Poland
Individual and collective forms of memory are driving forces behind the phenomenon of ‘homesick tourism’, the journeys undertaken by German expellees and refugees to their former homes in what is now Poland. Based on a content analysis of travel reports written by homesick tourists, this article applies concepts and theoretical approaches in the field of Memory Studies to the field of tourism, arguing that travelling can be considered an extensio…
How to honour a woman: Gendered memorialisation in post-apartheid South Africa
This article discusses a number of monuments, memorials and statues installed in public places in South Africa since 1994 – and especially since 2006 – in memory of extraordinary women. After 1994, the democratically elected post-apartheid government began to redress the biased landscape of memory inherited from the previous order, by establishing a host of new memorials commemorating new heroes and previously neglected perspectives on the past. …
Transforming Symbolic Identity: Wall Art and the South African City
June 01 2008 Transforming Symbolic Identity: Wall Art and the South African City Sabine Marschall Sabine Marschall Sabine Marschall is an art historian permanently residing in South Africa, where she coordinates the Cultural and Heritage Tourism Programme at the University KwaZulu-Natal. Her current research is focused on commemoration and heritage in post-apartheid South Africa. In 2002 she published Community Mural Art in South Africa (UNISA Pr…
The long shadow of apartheid: A critical assessment of heritage transformation in South Africa 25 years on
Based on insights gained from two decades of research on South African heritage and monuments, this paper critically reflects on the status quo of heritage transformation in South Africa 25 years after the end of apartheid. It assesses new directions in national heritage policy and government strategy in relation to recent developments around post-apartheid heritage and the popular demand for a removal of ‘colonial statues’, which gained impetus …
Transforming the Landscape of Memory: The South African Commemorative Effort in International Perspective
Extracted from text ... This article is part of a larger research project on commemoration and heritage funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF). 165 South African Historical Journal, 55 (2006), 165-185 Transforming the Landscape of Memory: The South African Commemorative Effort in International Perspective* SABINE MARSCHALL University of KwaZulu-Natal It is no coincidence that the practice of erecting public monuments and statues began t…
Getting the Message Across: Art and Craft in the Service of HIV/Aids Awareness in South Africa
The struggle against the HIV/AIDS pandemic is one of the most serious challenges South Africa faces today. Great efforts have been and are being made to create awareness of the disease, utilizing a variety of strategies that range from straightforward educational messages in magazines, billboards, and radio/TV broadcasts, to more creative or artistic approaches in media such as film, drama, music, art, and crafts. Many of these projects (notably …
Memory and Identity in South Africa: Contradictions and Ambiguities in the Process of Post-apartheid Memorialization
The article explores commemorative markers as containers of intangible heritage in post-apartheid South Africa, with special reference to the case study of the Duncan Village Massacre memorial that was unveiled in 2008 in the Buffalo City Municipality (Eastern Cape) in memory of the victims of the so-called Duncan Village Massacre of August 1985. This event is an example of many similar cases of apartheid-era township violence, where state securi…
Private Sector Involvement in Public History Production in South Africa: TheSunday TimesHeritage Project
This article investigates issues of identity construction and public memorialization in postapartheid South Africa. It focuses on theSunday TimesHeritage Project, a unique private-sector initiative that involved the installation of thirty memorials throughout the country between 2006 and 2008. The article discusses the conceptualization and implementation of the project, pointing out important differences between this private initiative and the s…
Pointing to the Dead: Victims, Martyrs and Public Memory in South Africa
This article focuses on South Africa during the early 1990s, a crucial time of transition, when fundamental political changes were imminent and different stakeholders among the former liberation movements prepared themselves for representation in the emergent post-apartheid dispensation. In this context, both the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), whose history of rivalry and ideological differences extends to …
The impact of the two Johannesburg biennales (1995 and 1997) on the formation of a 'New South African art
(1999). The impact of the two Johannesburg biennales (1995 and 1997) on the formation of a ‘New South African art’. Social Dynamics: Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 119-137
Public holidays aslieux de mémoire: Nation-building and the politics of public memory in South Africa
This article engages with public holidays in post-apartheid South Africa as lieux de mémoire, 'sites of memory' that preserve particular interpretations of historical events and selected heroes for inscription into the collective memory of the nation. It first traces the legislative process that resulted in the official rearrangement of the festive calendar after the 1994 first general elections, exploring the political and pragmatic consideratio…
Sites of Identity and Resistance: Urban Community Murals and Rural Wall Decoration in South Africa
Si la decoration murale de l'habitat rural est ancienne en Afrique australe, depuis les annees 1990 s'est developpee plus particulierement une pratique communautaire de l'art mural en milieu urbain. Alors que les peintures des maisons rurales sont realisees individuellement par les femmes et comportent essentiellement des motifs geometriques, l'art mural urbain est une pratique collective privilegiant les motifs figuratifs. Malgre les differences…
The integration of art and architecture and its relevance in the New South Africa
The impact of the two Johannesburg biennales (1995 and 1997) on the formation of a 'New South African art
(1999). The impact of the two Johannesburg biennales (1995 and 1997) on the formation of a ‘New South African art’. Social Dynamics: Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 119-137
A postcolonial reading of mural art in South Africa
Introduction Most residents of South Africa's larger cities will, when prompted, immediately recall having noticed one or more wall paintings, or murals, somewhere in town. Fifteen years ago, it can be ascertained, the response to such a question would have been very different--mostly due to circumstances associated with South Africa's political situation under an oppressive apartheid regime. While there were a few murals in South African cities …
South African mural art in the 1980s and 1990s: Impulses and influences
The Poetics of Politics: Imagi[ni]ng the New South African Nation
The author investigates how contemporary urban murals of the post-apartheid era contribute to the process of reconciliation and of creating and disseminating a new national identity for South Africa
Art in South Africa: ‘Redress’ Through Terminology
(2001). Art in South Africa: ‘redress’ through terminology. de arte: Vol. 36, No. 64, pp. 63-74
Sites of Identity and Resistance: Urban Community Murals and Rural Wall Decoration in South Africa
Si la decoration murale de l'habitat rural est ancienne en Afrique australe, depuis les annees 1990 s'est developpee plus particulierement une pratique communautaire de l'art mural en milieu urbain. Alors que les peintures des maisons rurales sont realisees individuellement par les femmes et comportent essentiellement des motifs geometriques, l'art mural urbain est une pratique collective privilegiant les motifs figuratifs. Malgre les differences…
Positioning the ‘Other: Reception and Interpretation of Contemporary Black South African Artists
Serving Male Agendas: Two National Women's Monuments in South Africa
(2004). Serving Male Agendas: Two National Women's Monuments in South Africa. Women's Studies: Vol. 33, No. 8, pp. 1009-1033
Getting the Message Across: Art and Craft in the Service of HIV/Aids Awareness in South Africa
The struggle against the HIV/AIDS pandemic is one of the most serious challenges South Africa faces today. Great efforts have been and are being made to create awareness of the disease, utilizing a variety of strategies that range from straightforward educational messages in magazines, billboards, and radio/TV broadcasts, to more creative or artistic approaches in media such as film, drama, music, art, and crafts. Many of these projects (notably …
Transforming the Landscape of Memory: The South African Commemorative Effort in International Perspective
Extracted from text ... This article is part of a larger research project on commemoration and heritage funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF). 165 South African Historical Journal, 55 (2006), 165-185 Transforming the Landscape of Memory: The South African Commemorative Effort in International Perspective* SABINE MARSCHALL University of KwaZulu-Natal It is no coincidence that the practice of erecting public monuments and statues began t…
Commemorating 'Struggle Heroes: Constructing a Genealogy for the New South Africa
This article focuses on new commemorative monuments, memorials and statues in post‐apartheid South Africa. The identification, preservation, celebration and display (not least for tourists) of heritage, especially the heritage of those previously marginalised, are flourishing throughout the country. This article examines how new monuments contribute to constructing new identities in the post‐apartheid context. It will first discuss the perceived …
Visualizing Memories: The Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto
This article focuses on the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Orlando West, Soweto, as one of the most significant new heritage sites completed since the advent of the post-apartheid era. Like other new commemorative ventures in South Africa, this memorial is dedicated to a key event in the history of the struggle for liberation, paying tribute to the victims of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and particularly to the young boy Hector Pieterson, who immediate…
Pointing to the Dead: Victims, Martyrs and Public Memory in South Africa
This article focuses on South Africa during the early 1990s, a crucial time of transition, when fundamental political changes were imminent and different stakeholders among the former liberation movements prepared themselves for representation in the emergent post-apartheid dispensation. In this context, both the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), whose history of rivalry and ideological differences extends to …
Transforming Symbolic Identity: Wall Art and the South African City
June 01 2008 Transforming Symbolic Identity: Wall Art and the South African City Sabine Marschall Sabine Marschall Sabine Marschall is an art historian permanently residing in South Africa, where she coordinates the Cultural and Heritage Tourism Programme at the University KwaZulu-Natal. Her current research is focused on commemoration and heritage in post-apartheid South Africa. In 2002 she published Community Mural Art in South Africa (UNISA Pr…
Zulu Heritage between Institutionalized Commemoration and Tourist Attraction
This article engages critically with an aspect of the flourishing post-apartheid heritage sector in South Africa, shaped by the confluence of conservation objectives, political agendas, and tourism development strategies. It focuses on a number of memorials and new heritage sites in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) that officially commemorate and celebrate Zulu cultural heritage. Rural KZN is home to a complex, rapidly transforming society caught between a gl…
Landscape of Memory: Commemorative monuments, memorials and public statuary in post-apartheid South Africa
Under the aegis of the post-apartheid government, much emphasis has been placed on the transformation and democratisation of the heritage sector in South Africa since 1994. The emergent new landscape of memory relies heavily on commemorative monuments, memorials and statues aimed at reconciliation, nation-building and the creation of a shared public history. But not everyone identifies with these new symbolic markers and their associated interpre…
Commemorating the ‘Trojan Horse’ massacre in Cape Town: The tension between vernacular and official expressions of memory
This paper engages with the process of memorialisation in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on the case study of the so-called Trojan Horse Massacre memorial in Athlone, Cape Town. Unveiled in 2005, this memorial is the latest of a series of attempts to publicly memorialise the three young victims of a local ambush attack organised by the South African security forces in August 1985. The paper investigates how these memorials as cultural expr…
The Memory of Trauma and Resistance: Public Memorialization and Democracy in Post-apartheid South Africa and Beyond
We all grossly underestimated the task of transforming ourselves into a democratic society. Dr Mamphela Ramphele, November 2009 On the occasion of New Year's Eve 2000, celebrating the dawn of the n
How to honour a woman: Gendered memorialisation in post-apartheid South Africa
This article discusses a number of monuments, memorials and statues installed in public places in South Africa since 1994 – and especially since 2006 – in memory of extraordinary women. After 1994, the democratically elected post-apartheid government began to redress the biased landscape of memory inherited from the previous order, by establishing a host of new memorials commemorating new heroes and previously neglected perspectives on the past. …
Articulating Cultural Pluralism through Public Art as Heritage in South Africa
Public art in South Africa today often consists of commemorative art promoted as “heritage” and installed in pursuit of specific sociopolitical goals such as reconciliation and nation-building. Cultural artifacts in the public arena can be important transmission mechanisms for cultural policy and negotiate the representation of different societal groupings in multicultural settings. This article focuses on the case of Durban, a large coastal city…
Private Sector Involvement in Public History Production in South Africa: TheSunday TimesHeritage Project
This article investigates issues of identity construction and public memorialization in postapartheid South Africa. It focuses on theSunday TimesHeritage Project, a unique private-sector initiative that involved the installation of thirty memorials throughout the country between 2006 and 2008. The article discusses the conceptualization and implementation of the project, pointing out important differences between this private initiative and the s…
TheSunday TimesHeritage Project: Heritage, the Media and the Formation of National Consciousness
Since the advent of democracy in 1994, the landscape of memory in South Africa has undergone significant changes. While most new monuments, memorials and heritage sites have emerged under the aegis of the government, this article focuses on a private sector initiative, the Sunday Times Heritage Project (STHP), sponsored by the Sunday Times newspaper in celebration of its centenary in 2006. The project involved the installation of 30 small-scale m…
Tourism and memory
Personal memory tourism’ and a wider exploration of the tourism−memory nexus
This paper investigates the varied intersections between tourism and memory. It begins with a brief consideration of the parallel developments between the emergence of the 'memory boom' and that of the 'tourism boom', as well as the academic fields of memory studies and tourism studies, respectively. Memory is a crucial factor in choosing a destination; it impacts on the tourist experience at the destination and on the sharing of the experience w…
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