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13 - Environment, Heritage, Resistance, and Health: Newer Historiographical Directions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2011

Albert Grundlingh
Affiliation:
University of Stellenbosch
Christopher Saunders
Affiliation:
University of Cape Town
Sandra Swart
Affiliation:
University of Stellenbosch
Howard Phillips
Affiliation:
University of Cape Town
Robert Ross
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Anne Kelk Mager
Affiliation:
University of Cape Town
Bill Nasson
Affiliation:
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Summary

Through its preceding chapters, this book has sought to provide not only a sustained account of modern South Africa's historical development but also, as its contributors stress at various points, a conscious reflection of what has been a particularly fertile brand of national historiography. Naturally, the rethinking of approaches to the understanding of both pre-1994 and post-1994 South African society continues, and in this initial postapartheid phase, scholars have been inserting new explanatory perspectives or empirical information into a complex story. As the introduction to the volume has emphasised, more recent stories remain to be told. Equally, there are older or more established stories that may have been told but that can bear retelling through fresh analytical perspectives or on the basis of categories of evidence previously neglected or unavailable. Thus, in this concise concluding chapter, we consider four significant thematic areas with which South Africa's historians have been engaging particularly since the 1990s. These are the issues of the environment, of heritage and history, of later anti-apartheid resistance – or what has also come to be known as struggle history – and the history of health.

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Print publication year: 2011

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