Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south : excavating the ruins of Cape Town's rebirth / Christian Ernsten.
Ernsten, Christian, author.
2021
DT2405.C3657 E75 2021
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Title Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south : excavating the ruins of Cape Town's rebirth / Christian Ernsten.
Author Ernsten, Christian, author.
ISBN 9783030858063 (electronic bk.)
3030858065 (electronic bk.)
9783030858056
3030858057
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85806-3
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xix, 175 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-85806-3 doi
Call Number DT2405.C3657 E75 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 968.73/55
Summary This book traces and analyses the role of heritage in the urban transformation of the city of Cape Town. By looking at discourses of heritage and urban design, the book shows how Cape Town positions itself as an emerging global city in the context of a series of global events. The book points at how a heritage focus on the themes of post-colonial and post-apartheid reconciliation, restitution and memory in the city shifts to a focus on creativity, design and the arts. Thereby showing how traumatic remnants of colonialism and apartheid are reframed as "design challenges." Furthermore, it argues that the idea of a transformed society is projected into a future time and the chaotic present everyday life is left to its own devices. Against this backdrop, the book lays out the opportunities for epistemological reset and decolonial reflection on the citys deep histories, its embedded injustices and traumas that surfaced
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 10, 2021).
Series Studies in art, heritage, law and the market ; volume 2. 2524-7433
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030858056
Print version: 9783030858070
Print version: 9783030858087
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1. Introduction
2. Walking Back Urban History
3. Engineering an Urban Renaissance
4. Resurfacing Colonial Dead
5. Contesting Apartheit Ruins
6. Scripting Utopias and Dystopias
7. Reimagining Urban Truth
8. Conclusions.

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