Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins

Author : Hilton Judin,Faeeza Ballim,Nnamdi Elleh,Sally Gaule,Kelly Gillespie,Ali Khangela Hlongwane,Tara Weber,Eric Itzkin,Arianna Lissoni,Roshan Dadoo,Yasmin Mayat,Brendan Hart,Temba Middelmann,Barbara Morovich,Pauline Guinard,Muchaparara Musemwa,Goolam Vahed
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776146673

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Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins by Hilton Judin,Faeeza Ballim,Nnamdi Elleh,Sally Gaule,Kelly Gillespie,Ali Khangela Hlongwane,Tara Weber,Eric Itzkin,Arianna Lissoni,Roshan Dadoo,Yasmin Mayat,Brendan Hart,Temba Middelmann,Barbara Morovich,Pauline Guinard,Muchaparara Musemwa,Goolam Vahed Pdf

This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present

Author : Hilton Judin,Faeeza Ballim,Nnamdi Elleh,Sally Gaule,Kelly Gillespie,Ali Khangela Hlongwane,Tara Weber,Eric Itzkin,Arianna Lissoni,Roshan Dadoo,Yasmin Mayat,Brendan Hart,Temba Middelmann,Barbara Morovich,Pauline Guinard,Muchaparara Musemwa,Goolam Vahed
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776146680

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Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins by Hilton Judin,Faeeza Ballim,Nnamdi Elleh,Sally Gaule,Kelly Gillespie,Ali Khangela Hlongwane,Tara Weber,Eric Itzkin,Arianna Lissoni,Roshan Dadoo,Yasmin Mayat,Brendan Hart,Temba Middelmann,Barbara Morovich,Pauline Guinard,Muchaparara Musemwa,Goolam Vahed Pdf

This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present

Author : John Sodiq Sanni,Madalitso Zililo Phiri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003858393

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Monuments and Memory in Africa by John Sodiq Sanni,Madalitso Zililo Phiri Pdf

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a post-imperial world. In recent times, African movements to overthrow the symbols and monuments of the colonial era have gathered pace as a means of renaming, reclassifying, and reimagining colonial identities and spaces. Movements such as #RhodesMustFall in South Africa have sprung up around the world, connected by a history of Black life struggles, erasures, oppression, suppression, and the depression of Black biopolitics. This book provides an important multidisciplinary intervention in the discourse on monuments and memories, asking what they are, what they have been used to represent, and ultimately what they can reveal about past and present forms of pain and oppression. Drawing on insights from philosophy, historical sociology, politics, museum, and literary studies, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars with an interest in the decolonisation of global African history.

Author : Hilton Judin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000367119

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Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital by Hilton Judin Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative and policing mechanisms of the regime. It considers how this process reflected the usurpation of a regional modernism and looks to contribute to wider discourses on international postwar modernism in architecture. Buildings in Pretoria that came to embody ambitions of the apartheid state for industrialisation and progress serve as case studies. These were widely acclaimed projects that embodied for apartheid officials the pursuit of modernisation but carried latent apprehensions of Afrikaners about their growing economic prospects and cultural estrangement in Africa. It is a less known and marginal story due to the dearth of material and documents buried in archives and untranslated documents. Many of the documents, drawings and photographs in the book are unpublished and include classified material and photographs from the National Nuclear Research Centre, negatives of 1960s from Pretoria News and documents and pamphlets from Afrikaner Broederbond archives. State architecture became the most iconic public manifestation of an evolving expression of white cultural identity as a new generation of architects in Pretoria took up the challenge of finding form to their prospects and beliefs. It was an opportunistic faith in Afrikaners who urgently needed to entrench their vulnerable and contested position on the African continent. The shift from provincial town to apartheid capital was swift and relentless. Little was left to stand in the way of the ambitions and aim of the state as people were uprooted and forcibly relocated, structures torn down and block upon block of administration towers and slabs erected across Pretoria. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of architectural history as well as those with an interest in postcolonial studies, political science and social anthropology.

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11308523

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History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Pdf

Author : Anne Cary Morris Maudslay,Alfred Percival Maudslay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Central America
ISBN : UCBK:B000921609

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A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America by Anne Cary Morris Maudslay,Alfred Percival Maudslay Pdf

Author : Edgar C. Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Erie County (N.Y.)
ISBN : YALE:39002015009328

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Our County and Its People by Edgar C. Emerson Pdf

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : PSU:000017335294

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The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Pdf

Author : Richard C. Sha
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040539333

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The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism by Richard C. Sha Pdf

The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism investigates the varied implications of sketching in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century culture.

Author : Karsten Harries
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 026258171X

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The Ethical Function of Architecture by Karsten Harries Pdf

Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach, and get beyond the notion that its purpose is to produce endless variations of the decorated shed. In a series of cogent and balanced arguments, Harries questions the premises on which architects and theorists have long relied—premises which have contributed to architecture's current identity crisis and marginalization. He first criticizes the aesthetic approach, focusing on the problems of decoration and ornament. He then turns to the language of architecture. If the main task of architecture is indeed interpretation, in just what sense can it be said to speak, and what should it be speaking about? Expanding upon suggestions made by Martin Heidegger, Harries also considers the relationship of building to the idea and meaning of dwelling. Architecture, Harries observes, has a responsibility to community; but its ethical function is inevitably also political. He concludes by examining these seemingly paradoxical functions.

Author : Rev. W. G. Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433008440376

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Recollections of a Chaplain in the Royal Navy by Rev. W. G. Tucker Pdf

Author : Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015011263285

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The Poets and Poetry of America by Rufus Wilmot Griswold Pdf

Author : Rufus Wilmot GRISWOLD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026279509

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The Poets and Poetry of America ... With Additions by R. H. Stoddard. Carefully Revised, Much Enlarged, and Continued to the Present Time, Etc by Rufus Wilmot GRISWOLD Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : United States
ISBN : UCSC:32106006462722

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U.S. News & World Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chris Bohjalian
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307743923

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The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills of Tuscany, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. But when two soldiers—a German and an Italian—arrive at their doorstep asking to see an ancient Etruscan burial site, the Rosatis’ bucolic tranquility is shattered. 1955: Serafina Bettini, an investigator with the Florence Police Department, has successfully hidden her tragic scars from WWII, at least until she’s assigned to a gruesome new case—a serial killer who is targeting the remaining members of the Rosati family one by one. Soon, she will find herself digging into past secrets that will reveal a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart.