UC Berkeley

This dissertation explores the representation of urban renewal in `post'-apartheid Johannesburg and the co-constitution of subjectivities therein. It is particularly concerned with how regimes of representation, embodied in public art projects, were enlisted in the construction of national identity and the expansion of neo-liberal capitalist accumulation in the inner city. By focusing on these representational practices, this study hopes to make a contribution to a broader understanding of how regimes of representation constitute a new domain of politics in post-apartheid Johannesburg.