Rhodes Must Fall: archives and counter-archives

Kros, Cynthia

doi:10.1080/02560046.2015.1102270

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“…The 'imported foreign architect', as is very well known, was (Sir) Herbert Baker, who had moved to Cape Town from England in 1892 and lived there for a decade, relocating to Johannesburg where he resided for another decade prior to his commission with Edward Luytens to design government buildings in New Delhi. A protégé of Rhodes, he designed the temple-like Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town; intriguingly that structure is still intact, whereas the Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town below the monument, became the centerpiece of the 'Fallist' decolonial movement in 2015 (Kros 2015).…”

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Persistence of the past and the here-and-now of the Union Buildings

Mabin

2019

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In their presence and continued use as seat of government, the Union Buildings in Pretoria reveal the persistence of the past in a prime space of power and official commemoration in South Africa. The paper focuses on the retention of these segregation-era buildings as the "top" site of government in the context of Tshwane, or Pretoria, in the democratic era from 1994. The paper traces events and actions through several periods since the Buildings were conceived in 1909, to and beyond the inauguration of President Mandela at the site. Some alternative views on continued use of the buildings are explored. The argument of the paper is that urban collective memory in which monuments such as the Union Buildings stand, is constantly remade, and the meanings ascribed to the images evoked by such an edifice shift into sometimes radically different directions from those held in earlier periods.

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Section: To the Buildingsmentioning

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Persistence of the past and the here-and-now of the Union Buildings

Mabin

2019

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“…Looking at the growing literature on RMF at UCT in particular, the role and We agree that the particular strength of RMF is the ability of the movement to contagiously spread outside the ranks of confined allies, and we very much believe that the particular characteristic of this movement is its ability to mobilize affectively. This happens most certainly partly due to the visual repertoire of RMF's 'counterarchive' consisting of a whole range of photo genetic images that are capable of competing with the iconic status of Rhodes on his plinth (Kros 2015).…”

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Affective politics and colonial heritage, Rhodes Must Fall at UCT and Oxford

Knudsen

Andersen

2018

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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The article analyses the spatial entanglement of colonial heritage struggles through a study of the Rhodes Must Fall student movement at the University of Cape Town and the University of Oxford. We aim to shed light over why statues still matter in analyzing colonial traces and legacies in urban spaces and how the decolonizing activism of the RMF movement mobilizes around the controversial heritage associated with Cecil Rhodes at both places-a heritage that encompasses statues, buildings, Rhodes scholarship and the Rhodes Trust funds. We include a comparative study of the Facebook use of RMF as it demonstrates significant differences between the two places in the development of the student movements as political activism. Investigating in more detail the heritage politics of RMF at UCT we fledge out what we call an affective politics using non-representational bodily strategies. We argue that in order for actual social movements to mobilize in current political controversies, they need to put affective tactics to use.

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“…The first is that the ideology that presented the apartheid cultural landscape or imagery as ideal was not true. Second, these colonial and apartheid symbols were considered out-dated, to have persisted ‘well beyond the advent of democracy’ (Kros, 2015: 151). In fact, similar changes were experienced by most African postcolonial societies in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (Coombes, 2011; Larsen, 2013; Mbembe, 2015; Swartz, 2016).…”

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The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa

Fubah

2018

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This paper examines the changing nature of statues and monuments in post-apartheid South Africa with special focus on newly constructed statues and monuments at the Groenkloof Nature Reserve (GNR) in Tshwane. The paper highlights the extraordinary fascination of the African National Congress (ANC) government with statues and monuments in honour of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid icons. It demonstrates that by embarking on the construction of statues and monuments in honour of struggle icons, these icons have become the embodiment of a new iconography for South Africa. More importantly, the paper will demonstrate how the newly constructed statues, though still in line with the pre-1994 iconography, are also disruptive of the country’s cultural landscape, much to the advantage of the government.

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Rhodes Must Fall: archives and counter-archives

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

Persistence of the past and the here-and-now of the Union Buildings

Persistence of the past and the here-and-now of the Union Buildings

Affective politics and colonial heritage, Rhodes Must Fall at UCT and Oxford

The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa

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