RAVIRI Julie

PhD student

PhD student 

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Research

  • History of South Africa
  • Postcolonial studies
  • Racial representations

Siècles d’étude

20th & 21st centuries

Dissertation: From District Six to Mitchells Plain: spatiality and identities of the Cape Coloured community in South Africa.

Under the supervision of Professor Gilles Teulié (LERMA, Aix-Marseille université)

  • June 2024 : Congrès SAES, Nancy. From District Six to Mitchells Plain: crossing the urban boundaries of apartheid.
  • March 2025 : Séminaire BABEL, University of Toulon. From District Six to Mitchells Plain: (re)imagining nationhood through the identity of Cape Town’s Coloured community.
  • March 2025 : Séminaire du GRER (Groupe de Recherche sur l’Eugénisme et le Racisme), Paris-Cité, Paris. Welcome To Fairyland: District Six, an imaginary place that has become a symbol of Cape Town’s Coloured community.
  • Juin 2025 : Congrès SAES, Toulouse. From apartheid to freedom: transitioning Cape Coloured identities through the history of the Kaapse Klopse.
  • June 2025 : IAMHIST (International Association for Media and History), UCT Graduate School of Business (University of Cape Town), Cape Town, South Africa. The history of District Six told my its former inhabitants, a distorted narrative of loss and topophilia.