Activist memorialization : bearing witness at St. George's Cathedral

The purpose of this thesis is to address the question: how can memorialization contribute to social transformation? Specifically, in what ways is memorialization activist? To answer this question I worked with St. George’s Cathedral’s Crypt Memory and Witness Centre on their Bearing Witness exhibit, conducted primary and secondary literature surveys (namely academic articles and books, and periodicals from 1980-1986), story-telling focus groups and individual interviews. The exhibit group consisted of 17 former South African squatters who fasted at St. George’s Cathedral in 1982, demanding rights to live and work in Cape Town. Of the group of 17, I conducted personal interviews with seven women and three men.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Political Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Van Mill, Sarah

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Field, Sean

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13946

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13946