Public History and Culture in South Africa Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space /

• Main Authors: Hlongwane, Ali Khangela (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa-History.; Historiography.; Civilization-History.; Ethnology-Africa.; Cultural heritage.; African History.; Memory Studies.; Cultural History.; African Culture.; Cultural Heritage.

The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is intricately linked to question...