South Africa in 2018 finds itself at yet another crossroads with a changing of the presidential guard set against a backdrop of protests, state capture and a growing disenchantment afforded by the euphoria and promise of ...
In the mid-1990s, Jacques Derrida’s book Archive Fever (1995) sparked a lively theoretical debate that focused on practices of reading the archive, the relationship of the archive to power, and the gaps within the archive. ...
This article discusses the issue of potential pesticide contaminants in artifacts that are being repatriated by museums from the global north to Africa. It highlights that the issue of scientific testing of artifacts for ...
O'Connell, Siona(University of Kwazulu-Natal, 2019)
The ordinary archive of the racially oppressed in South Africa offers a critical
lens through which to interrogate notions of resistance, subjectivities and
freedom. This paper considers these questions by examining the ...
