City Site Museum represents the District Six Museum’s consideration of its current areas of work, thus continuing the reflective journey begun by the earlier companion publication Reflections of the conference, Hands on District Six: landscape and postcolonial memorialisation. It takes up the challenges referred to in the earlier text, and develops them in ways which indicate a strengthened practice which has much to offer by way of enriching the existing theoretical body of work around memorialisation practices. It traces the organic movement between the conceptual as well as physical spaces represented by the Museum as it continues to simultaneously occupy the areas of the city in which it is situated, the site which it represents, and the contested field of being a museum in which it is firmly located. This publication emerges from a comprehensive process of documentation, discussion, theoretical reflection and practical involvement spanning a two-year period. Gathering together a number of debates in the field, it clearly signals a deliberate move by those most closely involved with the Museum’s work to engage with theories of museum practice.
Edited by: Bonita Bennett, Chrischene Julius and Crain Soudien
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