{"id":10648,"date":"2014-10-21T10:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/?p=10648"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:54:21","slug":"natasha-erlank-women-memorialisation-contemporary-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2014\/natasha-erlank-women-memorialisation-contemporary-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"October 22: Natasha Erlank: \u201cWomen and Memorialisation in Contemporary South Africa\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        October 22: Natasha Erlank: \u201cWomen and Memorialisation in Contemporary South Africa\u201d\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Natasha Erlank, University of Johannesburg, will be speaking on \u201cWomen and Memorialisation in Contemporary South Africa\u201d on Wednesday, October 22 at 1:00 pm in the History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 1994 cities across South Africa have moved to commemorate the heroes of the struggle<br>\nagainst apartheid through the naming of public space and infrastructure. Street naming and<br>\nlabelling is a form of commemorative politics and South Africa is well-known for its conscious<br>\nattempts at the memorialization of the anti-apartheid struggle and its history, through national<br>\nand local heritage initiatives. However, the way in which public infrastructure including street<br>\nnames has also served to commemorate this past has seldom been considered, and<br>\nmemorialization is seldom seen as an issue of gender. This paper examines the debates around<br>\nstreet renaming which have occurred since 1994, looking at how the narrow, contemporary<br>\npolitics of racial equity via commemoration of the anti-apartheid struggle have turned what might<br>\nhave been an opportunity to foreground different facets of the South African past into a lost<br>\nopportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is part of the African Studies Brownbag Seminar Series<br>\n(http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/)<br>\nFor more information, please contact the Institute of African Studies at<br>\n613-520-2600 ext. 2220 or African_Studies@carleton.ca<br>\n*For a campus map, please see: http:\/\/www2.carleton.ca\/cu\/campus\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Erlank, University of Johannesburg, will be speaking on \u201cWomen and Memorialisation in Contemporary South Africa\u201d on Wednesday, October 22 at 1:00 pm in the History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall. Since 1994 cities across South Africa have moved to commemorate the heroes of the struggle against apartheid through the naming of public space and infrastructure. 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