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South Africa's Struggle to Remember - Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape (Paperback)
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South Africa's Struggle to Remember - Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape (Paperback)
Series: Europa Perspectives in Transitional Justice
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Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations
remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book,
however, shifts the frame from national discourses of transitional
justice onto local memory actors who attempt to engage with these
broader systems of meaning from below. The case study is based on
the memory struggles of individuals and groups who are attempting
to gain access to the discourses and benefits associated with
dominant memory identities of 'victim' and 'veteran' in the context
of post-transition South Africa. They share a common history of
squatter resistance in the Western Cape in the 1980s and a common
struggle for inclusion in dominant memory frameworks. The main
theme of this book is the politics of memory, as it relates to the
conversation between national and local memory. Integrated within
this theme is the further theme of alternative histories and
counter-memories of struggle from below. In focusing on counter
memories of violence and transition this book aims to tell a
different version of South African liberation history in relation
to the dominant narrative. It analyses local memory actors'
attempts to bring their lived histories into conversation with
national discourses of reconciliation and the national liberation
struggle. In doing so it unpacks a memory paradox occurring within
these narratives, which highlights the politics of inclusion and
exclusion within the frames of transitional justice knowledge. On
the one hand this alternate story exposes the paradox between local
and national memory while on the other hand it brings into focus
the local experience of the intersection between international
transitional justice discourses and national transition politics.
This book will be of local and international interest to scholars
and students in the field of transitional justice, memory politics,
national liberation struggle and South African historiography. It
will also be of interest to a broader South Africa public, as it
offers a deeper understanding of South Africa's history, which
challenges taken for granted transitional justice frames of
knowledge.
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