South Africa's Struggle to Remember: Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape

ISBN-13: 9781138386402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 184 str.

Kim Wale

Opis

This book tells a different version of South African liberation history in relation to the dominant narrative, analysing local memory community histories.

Spis treści

1. Histories of struggle and violence  2. Transitional justice memory frames  3. Unfolding a memory paradox  4. Narratives of struggle and violence  5. Narratives of transition: Disillusionment and dependency  6. Reclaiming people's power in local memory  7. Hegemony and agency in memory narratives

O autorze

Kim Wale is a post-doctoral fellow in Trauma, Forgiveness and Reconciliation Studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa. As a Commonwealth Scholar, she completed her PhD in post-conflict development at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom. Dr Wale is co-editor and co-author of the book Class in Soweto (2013, UKZN Press), which was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by the CHOICE review journal for academic libraries.