Commemorating and Forgetting

"A worthwhile read for the general visitor to South Africa, and it provides a summary of the literature on memory and South African memoryscapes. Its main strength lies in setting out existing analyses in interesting juxtapositions."—African Affairs

"This well-written, provocative study is accompanied by comprehensive references that contribute much to memory studies as well as to the study of the realpolitik of South Africa. Highly Recommended."—CHOICE

"Murray’s book is a major contribution on this difficult, elusive topic and a useful complement to his own and others’ writings on the evolving relations between citizens and the built environment in postapartheid South Africa."—Buildings & Landscapes

"The book will be a useful addition to a range of readers’ shelves but primarily for those from a humanities background recently coming to debates around South African nationhood, citizenship, identity, memory and landscape."—Transformation

"The questions raised in this book reflect a fascinating on-going conversation in South Africa. As it wades through the tough terrain of memorialization, Commemorating and Forgetting mostly refuses to default to the easy analytic of statist and authoritarian narratives. Instead, Murray offers an engaging reflection on the relationship between space and time as sites of on-going struggles over change."—African Geographical Review