Between Constitutional Mo(nu)ments: Memorialising Past, Present and Future at the District Six Museum and Constitution Hill

Douglas, Stacy

doi:10.1007/s10978-011-9083-4

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“…Inspiration may also be taken from Douglas’s (2011) work on South African museums. Douglas argues that redress of injustice and revolution of unjust structures may be spurred by locating a point of rupture —a space where the contradictions between the promises of justice and failure to deliver it are readily apparent.…”

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“…While most of this scholarship is focused on popular culture representations (e.g., Bainbridge 2009), some of this work examines court museums. Douglas (2011) examines the role of monumentalism and counter-monumentalism that manifests in the memorialisation techniques of the District Six Museum in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Douglas suggests that museum displays representing big ideas such as rights and freedom reveal the limits and contradictions of these concepts.…”

Section: Cultural Representations Of Courts and Lawmentioning

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Places of Justice? Representations of Law in Canadian Court Museums

Harrison

Walby²,

Piché³

2022

Can. j. law soc.

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There is little scholarship on museums and heritage sites that memorialize courts, judges, and law. Engaging with literatures on penal history and law and culture, we explore representations of law and power in court museums across Canada. Based on observations and interviews, we examine the meanings of the artifacts curated at court museum sites. In a post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission context, where heritage sites have been called upon to account for the atrocities experienced by Indigenous peoples in colonial institutions, we show how court museums in Canada continue to be curated in ways that naturalize the Canadian state and law, deny colonialism, and reproduce myths regarding the Canadian penal system. In our discussion, we reflect on the implications of our findings for literatures on representations of penality and law. We contend penal history museums must learn from critical, decolonizing trends in museological studies.

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Section: Cultural Representations Of Courts and Lawmentioning

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Places of Justice? Representations of Law in Canadian Court Museums

Harrison

Walby²,

Piché³

2022

Can. j. law soc.

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“…Furthermore the new Orange Hall (built to replace the one abandoned on the Ligoniel Road) on the Crumlin Road would be threatened and would be an additional emotional factor in Protestant reactions.' 33 The adherence to the conjecture provokes uncomfortable parallels with an apartheid era that linked ethnic integration with inevitable violence (Hart 1988;Douglas 2011) as well as with a more contemporary restructuring of the liberated migrant as the unwanted refugee (Hö ing and Razzaque 2012;Long 2013). In this new domain an entire collective of body-dwelling objects can be designated, targeted and pre-empted prior to actual physical creation as part of a project of better security practice.…”

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The security-threat-community

Coyles

2017

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At the height of 'the Troubles' in 1976 social-housing in Belfast was in a crisis situation as communities consolidated along ethnic boundaries, often with violent consequences, with some communities becoming drastically overcrowded and others falling into abject dereliction. Using declassified government documentation this paper examines how these events legitimised an emergent confluence of housing and security policy which brought into being the security-threat-community; a socio-material construct where every person is a potential insurgent and every dwelling a potential security-threat. Crucially, the paper problematises the complex entanglement of political, military, paramilitary, economic and ideological forces which shaped its formation. The discussion traces a descent through contingent events within a wider dispositif and reveals the formation of the Standing Committee on the Security Implications of Housing, a confidential government body which assessed the viability of social-housing procurement within communities in terms of the securitythreat it might present rather than the housing-need that it would address. As a complement to post-9-11 discourses concerning increasingly 'globalised conflicts' the security-threat-community reinforces the complexities of local discursivities. The paper makes visible the sophisticated socio-material effects of these operations and illustrates how they remain embedded within contemporary community structures. The paper concludes by reflecting on how this permits conflict-era forces to remain active, but largely unacknowledged, within the postconflict era. Ultimately the paper argues for a 'revaluing of the value' of this conflict-architecture within post-conflict policy frameworks.

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Archived Bodies: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition

Haslam

2022

Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

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Between Constitutional Mo(nu)ments: Memorialising Past, Present and Future at the District Six Museum and Constitution Hill

Cited by 20 publications

References 5 publications

Places of Justice? Representations of Law in Canadian Court Museums

Places of Justice? Representations of Law in Canadian Court Museums

The security-threat-community

Archived Bodies: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition

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