Reclaiming histories: The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals

dc.contributor.advisorScanlon, Helen
dc.contributor.authorSolomons, Anastasia Joan
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T07:36:39Z
dc.date.available2024-10-30T07:36:39Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2024-07-09T13:02:28Z
dc.description.abstractProduced with the intent to link the consciousness of the classified coloured Simonites to the needs presented by their physical surroundings, this study presents a poststructuralist critique of the post-apartheid culture of race. It invokes the Simonites' production of a living, inclusive and diversified archive as a disruptor to the existing colonial and apartheid power relations that structure social interactions. The study deploys oral history as a methodology due to its fluid administering of historical production. This study is a testament to the Simonites' agency pertaining their reclaimed histories and personhoods. These phenomena are intentionally pluralised to oppose a singularised, state-imposed culture of race that culturally-marginalises memories, histories and identities. An analysis of the Simonites' memory of the apartheid forced removals reveals that their memory is framed to meet a present cultural demand. Namely, the need to transform their culturally-marginalised social position as administered by the rainbow identity and subsequent citizenship status. Reclaimed histories are transformative to the extent that it produces a re-envisioned humanity that subverts existing power relations and appeals to greater society. A subversion of power relations reinvigorates a sense of belonging, broadens the recipients of state obligations and epistemologically undermines the dominance of racial discourse in a post-apartheid context. Therefore, this study supports an emerging discourse that posits Simon's Town as an ancestrally-diverse heritage landscape to which belonging and a unique history is claimed.
dc.identifier.apacitationSolomons, A. (2024). <i>Reclaiming histories : The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40651en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSolomons, Anastasia. <i>"Reclaiming histories : The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40651en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSolomons, A. 2024. Reclaiming histories : The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40651en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Solomons, Anastasia AB - Produced with the intent to link the consciousness of the classified coloured Simonites to the needs presented by their physical surroundings, this study presents a poststructuralist critique of the post-apartheid culture of race. It invokes the Simonites' production of a living, inclusive and diversified archive as a disruptor to the existing colonial and apartheid power relations that structure social interactions. The study deploys oral history as a methodology due to its fluid administering of historical production. This study is a testament to the Simonites' agency pertaining their reclaimed histories and personhoods. These phenomena are intentionally pluralised to oppose a singularised, state-imposed culture of race that culturally-marginalises memories, histories and identities. An analysis of the Simonites' memory of the apartheid forced removals reveals that their memory is framed to meet a present cultural demand. Namely, the need to transform their culturally-marginalised social position as administered by the rainbow identity and subsequent citizenship status. Reclaimed histories are transformative to the extent that it produces a re-envisioned humanity that subverts existing power relations and appeals to greater society. A subversion of power relations reinvigorates a sense of belonging, broadens the recipients of state obligations and epistemologically undermines the dominance of racial discourse in a post-apartheid context. Therefore, this study supports an emerging discourse that posits Simon's Town as an ancestrally-diverse heritage landscape to which belonging and a unique history is claimed. DA - 2024 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Political Studies LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2024 T1 - Reclaiming histories : The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals TI - Reclaiming histories : The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40651 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/40651
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSolomons A. Reclaiming histories : The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 2024 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40651en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066Eng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Political Studies
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.subjectPolitical Studies
dc.titleReclaiming histories: The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals
dc.typeThesis / Dissertation
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
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