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Unsettled History

Making South African Public Pasts

By: Leslie Witz,Gary Minkley,Ciraj Rassool

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Unsettled History

Making South African Public Pasts

By: Leslie Witz,Gary Minkley,Ciraj Rassool

An engrossing look at how history has been produced, contested, and unsettled in South Africa from Mandela's release to 2010.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472053345

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9780472053346

South African Family Stories

Reflections on an Experiment in Exhibition Making

By: Paul Faber,Ciraj Rassool,Leslie Witz

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South African Family Stories

Reflections on an Experiment in Exhibition Making

By: Paul Faber,Ciraj Rassool,Leslie Witz

This fascinating Bulletin reviews the special exhibition "Family Stories from South Africa", which opened in 2002 in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, and was shown in the National Cultural History Museum in Pretoria between 2003 and 2007. South African artists, photographers, designers and researchers worked with nine families to create this imaginative presentation. Tropenmuseum curator Paul Faber looks back at the making of the exhibition, and Ciraj Rassool and Leslie Witz, Cape Town, discuss the resulting exhibition in the Netherlands. Reviews and reactions to the exhibition in Pretoria are included. As with many of the Royal Bulletins, each contribution provides stimulating ideas on a broad range of questions concerning exhibition development, covering presentation, self presentation, identity, multiculturalism and dealing with apartheid experiences in the contemporary museum context.

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Kit Pub

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9068324926

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Unsettled History

Making South African Public Pasts

By: Leslie Witz,Gary Minkley,Ciraj Rassool

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Unsettled History

Making South African Public Pasts

By: Leslie Witz,Gary Minkley,Ciraj Rassool

Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 to South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup ®. Conventionally represented as a time of rectifying the silences and distortions of settler history through inclusion and recovery, the focus here instead is on the shifts in processes and locations of historicizing and the unsettled state of categories of framing history in post-apartheid South Africa. This era saw fundamental transformations in the order of knowledge: from the academy to the public; from popular history to public history; from history-as-lesson to history-as-forum. Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley, and Ciraj Rassool take the reader to sites of historical production in which complex ideas about pasts are invoked, and navigate a path toward understanding the agencies of image-making and memory production. This volume is the outcome of the authors’ intensive collaborative research and engagement over twenty-five years on questions including the production and performance of apartheid history; the cultural politics of social history; South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and practices of orality; tourism as an arena of image-making and historical construction; museums as sites of heritage production for a new South Africa; photographs, archival meanings, and the construction of the social documentary; and the centenary commemorations of the South African War and the making of race. The authors not only witnessed many of these instances of history-making but were also participants in their constitution.

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