Reframing Remembrance
The Politics of the Centenary Commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4603522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Albert Grundlingh (Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-375 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0305707042000215400 |
| OpenAlex | W2144902449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
In scale and intensity, the war of 1899–1902 was the closest that South Africans came to total war during the twentieth century. The war left a legacy of bitter memories and mutual recriminations. It assumed a central place in Afrikaner historical consciousness, feeding into subsequent Afrikaner nationalism for the first half of the century. With developments in South Africa during the 1990s, which saw a white government making way for a predominantly black one, the cultural significance of what had publicly long been viewed as a whites-only affair became a more contested area than previously. Several competing groups tried to reshape the significance of the war along different lines. The state tried to graft its particular perceptions onto a body of congealed historical understanding; some Africanist groupings considered the centenary quite irrelevant to the ‘new’ South Africa; Afrikaners showed a lively interest in the centenary, but by and large steered away from overt political interpretations linking the war to renewed calls for ethnic mobilisation; and commercialised interests tried to package the war for the purposes of tourism. This article aims to disaggregate these permutations and explain the underlying impulses helping to shape the different forms of commemoration
Archaeology · Cognitive reframing · Consciousness · Ethnic group · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · South African History and Culture
Capture the children”
A personal text owned by its public— changing readings of Sarah Raal’s Met die Boere in die Veld
Reading Loss. Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels
The Cambridge History of South Africa
Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland
The Cambridge History of South Africa
Spirituality and the memorialisation of the dead of the Durban Concentration Camps during the South African War (1899-1902) – a micro history
The role of iconic-historic commemorative events in event tourism
In Parenthesis
Imagining Mexico in 1910
Spectres of Afrikanerdom in contemporary commodity culture
Idioms of Return
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |