Debates on Memory Politics and Counter-Memory Practices in South Africa in the 1990s

Autor/in	Grunebaum, Heidi
Titel	Debates on Memory Politics and Counter-Memory Practices in South Africa in the 1990s
Quelle	In: Education as Change, 22 (2018) 2, Artikel 3777 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Grunebaum, Heidi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1947-9417
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; World History; Memory; Political Issues; Social Justice; Activism; Peace; Violence; Social History; Racial Segregation; Social Change; Conflict Resolution; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Weltgeschichte; Gedächtnis; Politischer Faktor; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Frieden; Gewalt; Sozialgeschichte; Rassentrennung; Sozialer Wandel; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Memory politics are often regarded as the "soft" issues contested in the aftermath of political and social upheaval. Yet critical public debates on memory, justice, impunity and reconciliation in South Africa prompted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process suggest otherwise. I offer a partial review of some of the key themes and critical debates on justice, reconciliation and memory in the 1990s, followed by a discussion of the spatial practices of the Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory (DACPM) whose multilayered social pedagogy and activist repertoire of the transitional period challenged the terms of the political transition and the scope of the TRC. The debates on the TRC and the practices of the DACPM constitute but a glimpse into the significance of memory-work for now forgotten terrains of civil activist intervention, contestation and practice. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Education as Change. The Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa. Tel: +27-11-5591148; e-mail: journal-ed@uj.ac.za; Web site: https://upjournals.co.za/
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Update	2020/1/01