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REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present)
Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/78698 REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present) O'Connell, Siona mandy@districtsix.co.za Sanger, Amanda Heritage and Museum Studies UCTD Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2020. This study is a contribution to the programme of memorializing District Six through the site-specific stories that are shared in research, education, and the co-curated spaces of the District Six Museum. When buildings, streets, street names and place names are erased from a landscape; when cultural, economic, religious, and educational spaces are shut down; then people’s connections to place are disrupted, diverted, reimagined, often lost to future linked generations. These connections, however, continue to live on in people’s memories - individual and collective, sometimes lying dormant waiting to be triggered into wakefulness and visibility. In the case of District Six, these memories have lived on as nostalgia about a recent past with the trauma, often, edited out. Consequently, District Six has frequently been rendered as a stereotype - a friendly, unproblematic, tolerant, kanala place, where grand narrative re-enactments provide a sense of closure for some or evokes a sense of renewed anger about the stories not told and the unfulfilled restitution process. The stories of women factory workers are a case in point, where the closing down of factories and the subsequent loss of livelihoods are remembered in two ways. Firstly, through a lens of nostalgia premised on the idea that the past was a better place when we had jobs and could feed our families. Secondly, this recent past is also remembered with a sense of unresolved anger that people are less important than profit margins and real estate - a mentality that resulted in the export of cheap labour factories overseas and gentrification. This study explores the stories of two women clothing workers from District Six. I mapped out the important clothing factories contained in the stories of the two women I interviewed like, for example, the Ensign Factory that was in a section of District Six now rezoned as part of Woodstock. The site and its surroundings have taken on a new corporate brand but still lives with the spectral traces of the old District Six. I make these and other District Six fragments more visible through the stories of Ruth Rosa Phala-Jeftha and Farahnaaz Gilfelleon, using the District Six Museum’s oral history methodology – one steeped in a critical pedagogy where the storytellers have agency and are invited into a co-curated sense-making and interpretive process. Historical and Heritage Studies MSocSci Unrestricted 2021-02-16T14:17:26Z 2021-02-16T14:17:26Z 2021-03 2020-08 Dissertation Sanger, A 2020, REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present), MSocSci Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78698> A2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78698 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Heritage and Museum Studies UCTD REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present) |
| title | REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present) |
| title_full | REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present) |
| title_fullStr | REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present) |
| title_full_unstemmed | REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present) |
| title_short | REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present) |
| title_sort | revealing lives excavating mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from district six 1940 present |
| topic | Heritage and Museum Studies UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78698 |