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Curating (im)mobility: Peri-urban agency in the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum

Kappler, Stefanie

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This article focuses on the ways in which museums perform peri‐urban agency in urban peripheries. The latter are defined as meeting points between rural and urban economies and zones of transition and precariousness, shaped by intersectional inequalities. In South Africa, the experiences of migrant workers include governed (im)mobilities, living on the urban periphery and seeing the continuation of colonial practices in a neoliberal economic environment. A mnemonic reading of the ways in which migrant labour is interpreted and curated by the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum near Cape Town reflects the extent to which the control of mobilities continues to operate in the country's post‐apartheid neoliberal system. The manner in which the museum curates the experience of migrant‐labour casts light on the performance of a particular form of peri‐urban agency as a way of interpreting the experience of migrant labour beyond Cape Town's city centre. Such agency is not free from contestation but instead an articulation of mnemonic agency in a post‐colonial political setting.

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Kappler, S. (2021). Curating (im)mobility: Peri-urban agency in the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum. Global Policy, 12(S2), 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12832

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 4, 2020
Online Publication Date Jun 23, 2020
Publication Date 2021-04
Deposit Date May 7, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Global Policy
Print ISSN 1758-5880
Electronic ISSN 1758-5899
Publisher Durham University
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 12
Issue S2
Pages 53-62
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12832

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Kappler, Stefanie (2021). Curating (im)mobility: Peri-urban agency in the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum. Global Policy 12(S2): 53-62., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12832. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.




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