南アフリカ共和国の気鋭の政治学者であるスカーレット・コーネリッセン教授（ステレンボシュ大学政治学部）をお招きして、研究会を開催することとなりました。

かつて鉱業資本の蓄積とともに発展し、アパルトヘイト下の「合理論的な」政策に従って計画された南アフリカの都市空間が、アパルトヘイト後に経験している 変容、例えば黒人市民の中産階級化と格差の拡大や、ある種の脱工業化といった現象を、現在のケープタウンにおける集合的アイデンティティの社会的・経済 的・地理的なシフトとともに論じて頂きます。

日時：
9月27日（月）17:00-19:00

場所：
稲森記念館中会議室（332号室）

講師：
Dr. Scarlett Cornelissen (Professor, Department of Political Science,University of Stellenbosch)

演題：
Urban Space, Collective Memory and Identities in Post-apartheid South Africa: Reflections from Cape Town
（アパルトヘイト後の南アフリカにおける都市空間、集合的記憶およびアイデンティティ：ケープタウンからの省察）

講演要旨：
Cities have historically played a distinctive role in South Africa’s modern political economy. They constituted central collection points for capital amassed predominantly through mining in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; were instrumental in providing the means to coordinate the rationalist planning and industrialisation characteristic of the apartheid era; and were fundamentally shaped by the policies of racial division of that era. The governing of cities in apartheid South Africa was designed to service the infrastructural, but particularly ideological and spatial requirements of the apartheid state. Urban authority reflected the spatio-administrative ordering of apartheid, consisting of local councils governing each of the four statutorily defined racial groups (i.e. White, Coloured, Indian and black African). Finally, since a key rationale of apartheid planning was the control of the flow of black Africans into cities - the intention of apartheid policy being to contain African settlement in designated rural ‘homelands’ or bantustans - urban policy centred on managing and monitoring Africans’ (and other populations’)  movements.
In the post-apartheid era urban areas continue to play an important role, although their primary function in the political economy has shifted. In a spatial sense, too, cities are now considered important geographical and economic sites for the enactment of transformation and integration. But the  post-apartheid city has been subject to many other, unintended changes, which range from gentrification,
informalisation, deindustrialisation in some instances, the rise of private securitised spaces, and  pronounced class polarities. Urban identities have concomitantly also changed. In this presentation I
reflect on changes in the spatial, social and economic geography of the city of Cape Town and their effects on urban identities in the city. The focus is on the broad way emerging (and older) identities interrelate with constructions of place in post-apartheid South Africa.