Truscott, R., Pohlandt-Mccormick, H. and Minkley, G. (2024) iMpuma-Koloni / Eastern Cape, Part 2. Kronos, 48 (1). pp. 8-30. ISSN 0259-0190
Abstract
Background: There are two signs at the side of the road leading away from Salem, a small town in the Eastern Cape that has been at the centre of one of the most contentious land claim trials before South Africa's Constitutional Court. The first reads: 'Welcome to Frontier Country'. The second: 'Potholes ahead'. The potholes offer themselves as further signs, but perhaps only in the way an inkblot solicits a transferential reading. What do potholes signify? Infrastructural disintegration? Erosion in the connective tissues of the region? Perhaps for some they are marks of social division associated with everything 'the frontier' has come to signify.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-SA 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Salem, Eastern Cape, Land claims, Potholes, Portals |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2024 15:41 |
Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2024 15:41 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Academy of Science of South Africa |
Identification Number: | 10.14426/kronos.v48i1.2218 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:220014 |