Memory, Conscience andthe Museum in South Africa: The Old Langa Pass Office and Court
| dc.contributor.author | Ralphs, Gerard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-31T10:13:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-31T10:13:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-13T09:16:31Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The old pass office and court in Langa was a site of apartheid brutality. In its day-to-day workings, the court found thousands of South Africans guilty of ‘crimes’ that were only crimes in the radically unjust society that the apartheid government cultivated. This paper explores how residents from Langa have remembered the site of the old pass office and court through the lens of oral history. In doing so, it asks how the site, now the Langa Museum, may become a space of memory, identity, and political conscience and consciousness in a post-apartheid context. What insight and wisdom lie embedded in Langa residents’ oral histories about the old pass office? And how can oral historians, Langa residents, museum and heritage practitioners, and visitors to Langa access and utilise the transformative narrative power of these site-stories in the shifting contexts of the site as an emergent social history museum? At what point does the old Langa pass office cease to be a dark space of apartheid, and begin to become a space of post-apartheid humanity and creativity? Indeed, can the Langa Museum become a ‘living’ social history museum? What would a transformation of this nature entail for oral history, Cape Town's memory communities, community-based heritage practice, citizenship, and identity in the South African postcolony? | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470802416526 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Ralphs, G. (2008). Memory, Conscience andthe Museum in South Africa: The Old Langa Pass Office and Court. <i>South African Historical Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28200 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Ralphs, Gerard "Memory, Conscience andthe Museum in South Africa: The Old Langa Pass Office and Court." <i>South African Historical Journal</i> (2008) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28200 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ralphs, G. (2008). Memory, Conscience and the Museum in South Africa: The Old Langa Pass Office and Court. South African Historical Journal, 60(2), 258-274. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - AU - Ralphs, Gerard AB - The old pass office and court in Langa was a site of apartheid brutality. In its day-to-day workings, the court found thousands of South Africans guilty of ‘crimes’ that were only crimes in the radically unjust society that the apartheid government cultivated. This paper explores how residents from Langa have remembered the site of the old pass office and court through the lens of oral history. In doing so, it asks how the site, now the Langa Museum, may become a space of memory, identity, and political conscience and consciousness in a post-apartheid context. What insight and wisdom lie embedded in Langa residents’ oral histories about the old pass office? And how can oral historians, Langa residents, museum and heritage practitioners, and visitors to Langa access and utilise the transformative narrative power of these site-stories in the shifting contexts of the site as an emergent social history museum? At what point does the old Langa pass office cease to be a dark space of apartheid, and begin to become a space of post-apartheid humanity and creativity? Indeed, can the Langa Museum become a ‘living’ social history museum? What would a transformation of this nature entail for oral history, Cape Town's memory communities, community-based heritage practice, citizenship, and identity in the South African postcolony? DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Historical Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - Memory, Conscience andthe Museum in South Africa: The Old Langa Pass Office and Court TI - Memory, Conscience andthe Museum in South Africa: The Old Langa Pass Office and Court UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28200 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28200 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Ralphs G. Memory, Conscience andthe Museum in South Africa: The Old Langa Pass Office and Court. South African Historical Journal. 2008; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28200. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Historical Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Historical Journal | |
| dc.source.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rshj20 | |
| dc.subject.other | Langa | |
| dc.subject.other | apartheid | |
| dc.subject.other | colonialism | |
| dc.subject.other | memory | |
| dc.subject.other | museum | |
| dc.subject.other | postcolony | |
| dc.subject.other | oral history | |
| dc.subject.other | site-stories | |
| dc.title | Memory, Conscience andthe Museum in South Africa: The Old Langa Pass Office and Court | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image |