ABSTRACT
The complexities of living-in-diversity shape the ways in which heritage is understood and conceptualised. Similar to sociolinguists who have argued that it is useful to think of ‘language’ as a verb (languaging), heritage scholars have suggested that heritage reflects human action and agency (heritaging). An understanding of heritage as process, as performativity and performance, as shot through with dissonance and a multiplicity of voices (Derrida 1994), stands in opposition to wide-spread governmental, institutionalised and hegemonic views of heritage. Using the idea of ‘moments’ or ‘encounters’, this chapter explores heritage as a social practice through two South African case studies.
