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    Remembering Marikana: Public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town 

    Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
    This article investigates the role played by cultural initiatives in urban struggles in South Africa, and the emergence of public art to assert the right to the city. I explore how artistic– activist interventions engage ...
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    Changing urbanscapes: Colonial and postcolonial monuments in Windhoek 

    Becker, Heike (Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2018)
    This article investigates how recently-constructed sites that anchor memories of anti-colonial resistance and national liberation have changed the urban landscape of the Namibian capital, Windhoek. The discussion is ...
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    Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa 

    Becker, Heike; Schulz, Dorothea (Routledge, 2017)
    This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive ...
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    South Africa: anthropology or anthropologies? 

    Becker, Heike; Spiegel, Andrew D. (American Anthropological Association, 2015)
    A direct result of South Africa’s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its contested, if not conflicting, political and ideological positions on anthropology’s South African trajectories. This was ...
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    Against trauma: silence, victimhood, and (photo-) voice in Northern Namibia 

    Becker, Heike (UFS, 2015)
    The article shows how the discourses of trauma, victimhood and silence regarding local agency contributed to the production of the nationalist master narrative in postcolonial Namibia. However, I point out repositories of ...
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    From ‘to die a tribe and be born a nation’ towards ‘culture, the foundation of a nation’: the shifting politics and aesthetics of Namibian nationalism 

    Becker, Heike (Otjivanda Presse, 2015)
    Namibia’s postcolonial nationalist imaginary is by no means homogeneous. Overall, however, it is conspicuous that as Namibia celebrates her twenty-fifth anniversary of independence, national identity is no longer defined ...
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    Africa after apartheid: South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania 

    Becker, Heike (Routledge, 2016)
    South African economic and political expansion into the African continent has been a controversial feature of the post-apartheid era. Now human geographer Richard Schroeder has taken up the matter in an ethnographic study ...
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    A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing ‘Afrikaaps’ 

    Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    This paper looks into the aesthetics and politics of the ‘hip-hopera’ Afrikaaps. Afrikaaps was produced in 2010 by a group of musicians and spoken-word artists from Cape Town and the rural Western Cape Province of South ...
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    Namibia’s moment: youth and urban land activism 

    Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
    A few months short of the 25th anniversary of independence from South Africa in March 1990 Namibia reached her Fanonian moment. As Achille Mbembe has explained this term with regard to the South African student movements ...
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    The burden of history: Namibia and Germany from colonialism to postcolonialism 

    Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    When former German Foreign Minister Joseph ‘Joschka’ Fischer visited Windhoek in October 2003, he went on record to say that there would be no apology that might give grounds for reparations for the first genocide of the ...
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