The Yeoville Stories project Looking for public history in Johannesburg

In early 2010, when we embarked on the Yeoville Stories project, one of the four legs of the Yeoville Studio, we had only a vague idea of where this would take us, but a keen desire to tell the extraordinary tale of an ordinary neighbourhood of Johannesburg. We wanted to contribute to the creation o...

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Published inPolitics and Community-Based Research p. 129
Main Authors SOPHIE DIDIER, NAOMI ROUX
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Wits University Press 01.10.2019
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Summary:In early 2010, when we embarked on the Yeoville Stories project, one of the four legs of the Yeoville Studio, we had only a vague idea of where this would take us, but a keen desire to tell the extraordinary tale of an ordinary neighbourhood of Johannesburg. We wanted to contribute to the creation of what could be a truly public history of Johannesburg, not necessarily backed by grand memorials or focused on heroic figures, but a public history telling the continuities in the ways that urban residents make sense of a city that often seems to be characterised by