Taking an intersectional approach, considering dimensions of race, space, class, generation and power, and employing a mixed methodology of ethnographic, oral history and community-based participatory action, this research aims to consider the ways in which narratives of memory can be (re)produced, recognised or resisted through the (often competing) structures and patterns of remembering in South Africa. Spatially, the scope of this research will seek to create distinctions between the ways in which such narratives, grounded in social discourse, are mobilised within formal, official spaces aimed at obligating interaction with the past, such as museums and sites of memory, and within informal, quotidian spaces, such as communities, concerned with change for the future.