Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Jethro, Duane

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“…Others are, surprisingly, still absent, or marginal, while they are featured more prominently in adjacent disciplines such as folklore. The senses, in general, have not found a comfortable home in heritage studies, preventing each culture from being approached on its own sensorial terms ; but see Jethro 2020).…”

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Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies

2024

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“…I therefore argue for attention to be paid to the sensory politics contained within competing discourses and practices of religion in public spaces. Much as the post-apartheid state sought to link its authority and heritage claims to sensory calibration (Jethro 2020), the emerging radical politics around student protest movements and against neoliberalism have also entailed a sensory contestation. This chapter thus treats the examples described above as instances of competing ethical and political claims to selfhood, sensory propriety and the nation.…”

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Race, Animal Bodies and Religion: Sacrifice, Sensory Politics and Public Space in South Africa

Tayob

2022

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In South Africa, previous analyses of religious nationalism turn on the apartheid regime and its close ties to the Dutch Reformed Church. Since the fall of apartheid, democracy and pluralism have been emphasized as the discourse of the new South Africa, which aims to accommodate all of South Africa’s many religious traditions. Together with decades of neoliberal economic policy, the outcome is that in South Africa private individuals and organizations make claims on public spaces as rate-payers and property-owners, in the process revealing normative assumptions about proper and improper religions. Drawing attention to two instances of the manipulation of animal bodies in public spaces, the chapter reveals the close connections between religion, animal sacrifice, racial hierarchy and conflicts over the use of and access to public spaces. The public practice of animal sacrifice reveals the existence of a sensory politics enacted by marginalized groups through which entrenched normativities about proper and improper bodies, substances and religions are contested in the name of a future nation to come.

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“…They were often painful and difficult, described as the struggle of a centralizing impulse attempting to pull highly diverse societies together under an ill‐fitting political entity (Scott, 1998). The ways in which aesthetics and ideas have been coopted into nation‐ and state‐building projects have illustrated this, with competing cultural, linguistic and historical approaches used to define ‘authentic’ statehoods (Jethro, 2020; Tendi, 2010; Vogel, 1991).…”

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Invented Modernisms: Getting to Grips with Modernity in Three African State Buildings

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Gallagher

2022

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This article examines recent attempts to create specifically African forms of modernist political architecture that draw on 'traditional' or 'pre-colonial' aesthetic forms and ideas. Taking examples of three prestigious structuresthe presidential palace in Ghana, the parliament in Malawi and the Northern Cape regional parliament in South Africathe article shows how vernacular ideas have been incorporated into state-ofthe-art political architecture, producing new or explicitly 'African' forms of modernism. It explores how such buildings, which draw on 'invented traditions', are used alongside conventional, monolithic representations of the state to produce 'invented modernisms' that both uphold and question the African state as a project of modernity.Some of the most celebrated architecture in Africa is found in the "high-modernist" monumental buildings constructed after independence to articulate confident modern states (

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Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies

Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies

Race, Animal Bodies and Religion: Sacrifice, Sensory Politics and Public Space in South Africa

Invented Modernisms: Getting to Grips with Modernity in Three African State Buildings

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