Memory politics are often regarded as the “soft” issues contested in the aftermath of political and social upheaval. Yet critical public debates on memory, justice, impunity and reconciliation in South Africa prompted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process suggest otherwise. I offer a partial review of some of the key themes and critical debates on justice, reconciliation and memory in the 1990s, followed by a discussion of the spatial practices of the Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory (DACPM) whose multilayered social pedagogy and activist repertoire of the transitional period challenged the terms of the political transition and the scope of the TRC. The debates on the TRC and the practices of the DACPM constitute but a glimpse into the significance of memory-work for now forgotten terrains of civil activist intervention, contestation and practice.

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1990年代有关南非的记忆政治和反记忆实践的辩论

记忆政治通常被视为政治和社会动荡之后争论的“软”问题。然而，由真相与和解委员会（TRC）进程引发的有关南非的记忆，正义，有罪不罚与和解的重要公开辩论却相反。我将部分回顾1990年代关于正义，和解与记忆的一些关键主题和重要辩论，然后讨论和平与记忆直接行动中心（DACPM）的空间实践，该中心的社会教学法和激进主义者是多方面的过渡时期的剧目挑战了政治过渡的条件和真相与和解的范围。关于TRC和DACPM的实践的辩论构成了记忆工作的重要性，但对于现在被遗忘的民权主义者干预领域而言，记忆工作的重要性便是一瞥，