Navigating Freedom: Social Cohesion Policies and the Democratic Cultural landscape of Durban's Liberation Heritage Route

Abstract

During the past five years, the South African government has developed a body of policy in response to a perceived lack of social cohesion, an issue that has been identified as the cause of a wide range of problems in post-apartheid society. Using a critique informed by the work of Henri Lefebvre and Pierre Bourdieu, the effectiveness of a curated spatial intervention, namely the National Liberation Heritage Route, as part of this social cohesion strategy, is evaluated in this paper.