Leslie Witz is a Professor in the History
Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His
major research centres around how different histories are created
and represented in the public domain through memorials, museums,
festivals and tourism. His books include Apartheid’s Festival:
Contesting South Africa’s National Pasts (Indiana University Press,
2003).
Noëleen Murray holds a joint appointment between
the Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Geography
and Environmental Studies. Her research offers a reading of
architecture and urban planning under and after apartheid. She was
the principal editor of Desire Lines – Space, Memory and Identity
in the Postapartheid City (2007).
"A first-rate and original study that is of significance to work on museums, heritage, South African history, and institutional formation." --Corinne Kratz, professor emerita of anthropology and African studies, Emory University
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