Overview
- Functions as a case for understanding the role of heritage in urban transformation of cities in the global south
- Deconstructs the meaning of urban renaissance processes in the context of a postcolonial city
- Lays out the value of the conceptual idea of the revenant in the context of a postcolonial heritage landscape
Part of the book series: Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market (SAHLM, volume 2)
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About this book
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 city’s deep histories, its embedded injustices and traumas that surfaced.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christian Ernsten is assistant professor of heritage studies at Maastricht University's Department of History. He is affiliated with the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH).
Christian holds a PhD in African studies from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and has completed visiting research fellowships at the Conservation Department of the University of Gothenburg and at Aarhus University's Centre for Uses of the Past.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Colonial Heritage and Urban Transformation in the Global South
Book Subtitle: Excavating the Ruins of Cape Town's Rebirth
Authors: Christian Ernsten
Series Title: Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85806-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85805-6Published: 28 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85808-7Published: 29 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85806-3Published: 27 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7425
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7433
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 175
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Cultural Heritage, Urban History, Archaeology, African History, Human Rights