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The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005
This thesis arises from the debates preceding and following the exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, between 2003 and 2005. A seemingly arcane subject, these unmarked burials places have become sites for far-reaching discussions about history, memory, space, and identity in the city, and indee...
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| description | This thesis arises from the debates preceding and following the exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, between 2003 and 2005. A seemingly arcane subject, these unmarked burials places have become sites for far-reaching discussions about history, memory, space, and identity in the city, and indeed the nation. The debates about the graves should be seen as invoking ethico-juridical questions about memory, forgetting and memorialisation. These are questions that are potent in the collective consciousness of a nation still preoccupied with transition, reconciliation and transformation. [...] |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/4675 The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005 Jonker, Julian Law This thesis arises from the debates preceding and following the exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, between 2003 and 2005. A seemingly arcane subject, these unmarked burials places have become sites for far-reaching discussions about history, memory, space, and identity in the city, and indeed the nation. The debates about the graves should be seen as invoking ethico-juridical questions about memory, forgetting and memorialisation. These are questions that are potent in the collective consciousness of a nation still preoccupied with transition, reconciliation and transformation. [...] 2014-07-30T18:16:55Z 2014-07-30T18:16:55Z 2014-07-30 Master Thesis Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4675 en application/pdf Department of Private Law Faculty of Law University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Law Jonker, Julian The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005 |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005 |
| title_full | The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005 |
| title_fullStr | The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005 |
| title_short | The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005 |
| title_sort | silence of the dead ethical and juridical significances of the exhumations at prestwich place cape town 2003 2005 |
| topic | Law |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4675 |
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