The Voortrekker Monument as Memory Institution

2019 ◽  
pp. 348-365
Author(s):  
Annie R Antonites ◽  
Johan Nel
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Central Memory ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
National Memory ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
White Settlers ◽  
Political Character

The Voortrekker Monument has been a central memory institution for Afrikaners since its conception in the 1930s. Built to commemorate 19th century white settlers moving into the interior, the Monument has for many years been appropriated by different groups for various purposes, including as an Afrikaner Nationalist symbol. Since the early 1990s, the Monument has made a concerted effort to change established perceptions and stigmas. The Monument's registration as a Section 21 Non-Profit Company in 1993 and declaration as National Heritage Site in 2011 were accompanied by a shift in focus from a political character to one where its aesthetic architectural heritage and tourism values are celebrated. These changes in character enabled and drove the expansion of the Voortrekker Monument heritage site as a memory institution. This chapter discusses the continued success of the Monument post-1994 as a national memory institution through the diversification of its visitors and programmes.

Wooden Footbridge in a National Heritage Site

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ueli Brauen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Know How ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Local Materials

<p>The forest management body Groupement Forestier des Agittes, which was creating a discovery trail at La Joux Verte, commissioned Brauen Wälchli Architectes to design a suspended footbridge from which walkers could enjoy a commanding view over the restored ruins of the former dam cutting across the valley. The footbridge was built according to the principles of sustainable development. Renewable and recycled local materials and regional know-how were employed in its construction.</p>

The Archive as a “Collective Project”

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-533
Author(s):  
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
State Government ◽  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Governmental Body ◽  
National Memory ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site

The history of the archive is the history of the state. Or so say conventional approaches to the archives. Until recently, the archive has been seen solely as a site, or rather a repository, of modern state power and governmentality, and a crucial medium for the making and preservation of national memory in the late 19th century. There is a truth to this state-centric perspective: the archive was conceived as a place where governments keep their records; they usually contain a term such as “state,” “government,” or “national” in their names; and they are often funded by and connected to a governmental body.

Art, Architecture, and National Memory-Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Peleggi
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Art ◽  
Sacred Landscape ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
National Memory ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Dialectical Tension ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
The Temple

Works of Buddhist art and architecture, in addition to having cultic use and artistic value, also enjoy prominence in the national heritage of several Asian countries regardless of the following Buddhism presently enjoys in each. While rooted in the millenary process of the formation of national cultures, this prominence is more immediately the outcome of archaeological investigations, architectural restorations, and museum collections that were initiated in the late 19th century by colonial officials, and royal commissioners in independent Siam and Japan, and continued by postcolonial governments, often with international support. The examination of Buddhist art and architecture as vehicles of national memory-making can be framed conceptually by the dialectical tension between their cult value as continuing foci of devotion and their exhibition value as evidence of cultural achievement. Four aspects of this productive tension are emphasized: the foundational tension in Buddhism between the doctrine of impermanence and the cult of relics; the tension between Buddhist monuments as elements of the diffuse sacred landscape and, conversely, of individual countries’ historical landscape; the tension between the place and reception of buddha images in the temple and, instead, in the museum; and finally, the tension between the traditional pious care for Buddhist monuments and their modern, scientific conservation. Owing to these productive tensions, works of Buddhist art and architecture continue to generate spiritual, cultural, and social meanings—in particular identitarian and mnemonic associations—even though in multiethnic and multireligious societies, these meanings are not uncontested.

Roman Cement Mortars in Europe's Architectural Heritage of the 19th Century

2009 ◽  
pp. 69-69-15
Author(s):  
J. Weber ◽  
N. Gadermayr ◽  
K. Bayer ◽  
D. Hughes ◽  
R. Kozlowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Cement Mortars ◽  
The 19Th Century

scholarly journals Bringing the Community Back: A Case Study of the Post-Earthquake Heritage Restoration in Kathmandu Valley

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stelios Lekakis ◽  
Shobhit Shakya ◽  
Vasilis Kostakis
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Management ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Western World ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Commons

Heritage preservation is a resource-intensive activity nested among other processes in the public administration, related to identity building and touristic product enhancement. Strategies and schemata associated with heritage preservation sprang in the western world after WWII and they have been adapted, in the form of ‘heritage management’, in various contexts with questionable effectiveness regarding sustainability. Our paper discusses the case of the post-earthquake cultural, social and political landscape of the World Heritage Site of Kathmandu valley in Nepal. By reviewing the bibliography and drawing upon various case studies of post-earthquake heritage restoration, we focus on the traditional ways of managing human and cultural resources in the area as related to the modern national heritage management mechanism. We also examine how traditional practices, re-interpreted into a modern context, can point towards inclusive and sustainable forms of collaboration based on the commons. We shed light on the elements of an emerging management system that could protect the vulnerable monuments through community participation, adapted to the challenging realities of the Nepalese heritage and its stakeholders.

Making post-colonial place identity: the regeneration of the St Lazarus neighbourhood, Macau

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Ye
Keyword(s):  
Place Branding ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site

Purpose This study aims to identify how the place identity of the former Portuguese neighbourhood of St Lazarus was reshaped for the purposes of place branding, tourism and consumption in post-colonial Macau. Design/methodology/approach This study sees place identity as a constructed multiplicity whose components are strategically assembled to (re)make the self. It uses the Deleuze–Guattarian theory of assemblage to analyse identity-making, specifically to examine how urban elements, including material content (material qualities of forms, programmes and life) and narrative expressions (interpretations of place), come together to shape the sense of place. Findings The heritage conservation policy and creative district planning guidance are overarching controls. Following them, several material and narrative elements are connected. The colonial character of the architecture is reinforced and an artistic atmosphere is created, while inhabitants’ everyday life is suppressed and the difficult past is almost erased. The newly processed post-colonial identity seems another kind of colonisation. Coloniality as a power relationship continues in a different form. The hidden structure driving these processes is global capitalism. Originality/value Studies on colonial architectural heritage in Macau, particularly outside of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, remain relatively scarce. This study aims to fill this gap and to further examine the Deleuze–Guattarian theory in the context of place study.

Roman Cement Mortars in Europe’s Architectural Heritage of the 19th Century

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 100667 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Weber ◽  
N. Gadermayr ◽  
K. Bayer ◽  
D. Hughes ◽  
R. Kozlowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Cement Mortars ◽  
The 19Th Century

Focus: History and memory Introduction

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-525
Author(s):  
MADELON DE KEIZER
Keyword(s):  
Social Identities ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Word Memory ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
National Memory ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Many ◽  
Core Meaning

The story goes that in the 1980s and 1990s no publisher in Paris was prepared to issue a historical study that did not have the word ‘memory’ in the title. Identity, a congener of memory, was equally popular in the same period. One of the experts in the field, John Gillis, claimed that identity has become no more than a cliché and that memory has lost a lot of its precision, but both terms have remained key concepts. ‘The core meaning of any individual or group identity, namely, a sense of sameness over time and space, is sustained by remembering; and what is remembered is defined by the assumed identity’. Memories and identities are anything but certain facts; they are `representations or constructions of reality, subjective rather than objective phenomena. […] “Memory work” is, like any kind of physical or mental labor, embedded in complex class, gender and power relations that determine what is remembered (or forgotten), by whom, and for what end”.It has been suggested that the demise of the vainglorious future-orientated ideologies in the late 1980s brought about a shift in focus towards the past. However that may be, the wave of interest in memory did receive an enormous impulse from one of the most controversial studies in this field, the seven-volume series Les Lieux de Mémoire (1984–1992), published under the direction of the French historian Pierre Nora. In the last volume he argued that France had gradually disappeared as a ‘memory nation’; the national memory had been supplanted by a series of lieux de mémoire and the conflicting social identities that this entailed. La France, according to Nora, had entered the ‘era of commemoration’ as Les Frances as a result of what he called a ‘democratization of the commemorative spirit’.The relation between national identity and collective memory is highlighted by the many commemorative events organised in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1980, the French, British and Brazilian governments had a Year of National Heritage, while in Israel a ‘memory industry’ specially devoted to the Holocaust got under way.

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