Green Point, Globalisation and the Remains of the Prestwich Street Dead

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• 作者：Gerard Ralphs (1) (2)
  
• 关键词：Post ; apartheid Public Sphere ; Prestwich Street ; Memory ; Slavery ; Apartheid
• 刊名：Archaeologies
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：August 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：4
• 期：2
• 页码：344-352
• 全文大小：207KB
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• 作者单位：Gerard Ralphs (1) (2)
  
  1. Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
  2. 76 Rondebosch Oaks, Albion Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
  

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This paper asks how the remains of the Prestwich Street dead may become a shaping force behind efforts to remember slavery and apartheid in a post-apartheid national context. Between 2003 and 2005, thousands of human remains were disinterred from the site of a multi-million Rand development project in Green Point, Cape Town. The bones of the dead the subject of fierce socio-historical and political contestations. This paper briefly explores how colonial and apartheid forces of erasure resulted in the destruction of forms of self-identity, memory and community; and posits three propositions for the self-reconstruction project the remains of the Prestwich Street dead may invoke in the postcolony.