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Colonial Heritage and Urban Transformation in the Global South

Part of the Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market Book Series (volume 2)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85806-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-85805-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 28, 2021

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Ernsten, Christian

Pages: 1 –15

[This chapter presents various points of departure for thinking through Cape Town’s post-apartheid rebirth as a case study of how colonial heritage functions in processes of urban transformation in the Global South. It sets up a conversation on the meaning of newness and ruins in a former...
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Chapter 2Walking Back Time

Ernsten, Christian

Pages: 17 –39

[This chapter takes the form of a walking journey through the key colonial features of present-day Cape Town. As we traverse the city, making stops at the Company’s Garden, the Castle, the Central Business District, and District One and Six, I discuss how the city’s transformation is conditioned...
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Chapter 3Resurfacing Colonial Dead

Ernsten, Christian

Pages: 41 –61

[This chapter explores how Cape Town is haunted by its colonial dead. The story begins at a boutique coffee shop called Truth, which is located inside an ossuary containing 1540 boxes of human remains. Discussing the unearthing of these human remains at District One in Cape Town, I examine...
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Chapter 4Engineering an Urban Renaissance

Ernsten, Christian

Pages: 63 –86

[This chapter examines the discourses that have dominated Cape Town’s post-apartheid urban rebirth. Zooming in on two key governmental actors that, more than any other, determine urban policy and practice, I demonstrate how particular global discourses around soccer and design play out in the...
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Chapter 5Contesting Apartheid Ruins

Ernsten, Christian

Pages: 87 –107

[Focusing on District Six, this chapter is concerned with the ruins of contemporary Cape Town, both its literal ruins and the ruination of urban dreams. Discussing the counter-practice of the District Six Museum in relation to the restitution and redevelopment of District Six, I further develop...
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Chapter 6Scripting Utopias and Dystopias

Ernsten, Christian

Pages: 109 –131

[This chapter begins at a seventeenth-century Cape Dutch farm just outside of Stellenbosch—the Spier Wine Estate—with the Innovation for the Urban Age conference that took place there in 2014. Throughout the chapter, I discuss how discourses on urban futures are shaped and fashioned. Looking more...
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Chapter 7Reimagining Urban Truth

Ernsten, Christian

Pages: 133 –155

[In this chapter, I think about the messy materiality of the ruined landscapes of Cape Town’s District One and District Six. I discuss ways of connecting the traces in these landscapes with degraded or silenced historical and contemporary personhoods. In collaboration with photographer Dirk-Jan...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Ernsten, Christian

Pages: 157 –164

[This conclusion chapter outlines a final set of ideas about how best to characterize the contemporary urban moment in Cape Town. Focussing on two heritage and urban design discourses, it summarizes how ways of thinking and forms of praxis in the city have been conditioned, and how a set of...
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Chapter 9Epilogue

Ernsten, Christian

Pages: 165 –169

[This epilogue reflects on the #RhodesMustFall protests, firstly as a reminder of the restrictions of writing this book from the Global North. It furthermore takes the commentaries surrounding these protests as a cue for thinking through the locational term of “the Cape”, and how it has...

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