The notion of territory is at the heart of postcolonial studies. Anglo-Saxon cultural geography which aims at rethinking space as a passage and mixing zone with very permeable frontiers instead of a category which would be conceptually closed, enables us to understand the way such a society as found in South Africa, works. The seminar aims at examining the concepts of cultural and memorial territory as well as of geography of identity in order to understand the mechanisms of South African society. We will question the way such a society tries to create unity from a multitude of cultural visions and inscribes it in space as was the case during Apartheid. It is at this pivotal moment (a crossroad) between a colonial and postcolonial era that we will focus our attention, and more particularly on memorial space and the construction of an identity.
