Research Catalog

Title

Race, memory and the apartheid archive : towards a transformative psychosocial praxis / edited by Garth Stevens, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa ; Norman Duncan, University of Pretoria, South Africa ; and Derek Hook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Stevens, Garth
• Duncan, Norman (Professor of psychology)
• Hook, Derek

Description

xviii, 368 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

For decades the global gaze on South African society invariably focused on it as a symbol of the inevitable excesses of social engineering, racism and violence under the apartheid dispensation; with astonishment at the apparent exceptionalism of the 'miracle' transition that occurred to democratic rule and the dismantling of apartheid; and more recently, on the resurgence of newer manifestations of racialisation and violence in post-apartheid South Africa. Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis recognises and confronts this complex history of racialised oppression, as well as the future possibilities and impossibilities of transforming South African society through a re-engagement with the apartheid archive - an archive that holds the promise of not only revisiting and augmenting our history through the storied lives of ordinary citizens, but also allows us to understand the continued impact of this past on our present social, subjective and psychological realities. Located within a psychosocial approach that is uniquely suited to the socio-historical and psychical analysis of racism, this book relies mainly on the memories, stories and narratives of ordinary people, submitted to the Apartheid Archive Project, as its source material. It provokes us into thinking about racism as grounded as much in affective as in macro-political means, in the functioning of both intrapsychic and material forms, perpetuated as much in private as in institutional domains, and the ways in which these understandings can contribute to social transformation.

Series Statement

Studies in the psychosocial

Uniform Title

Studies in the psychosocial.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Psychoanalysis and racism > South Africa
• Apartheid > South Africa
• Apartheid
• Psychoanalysis and racism
• Race relations
• Social conditions
• South Africa > Race relations
• South Africa > Social conditions > 20th century
• South Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Apartheid Archive Project, the Psychosocial and Political Praxis / Derek Hook -- Introduction to Part I Theorising the Archive / Leswin Laubscher -- 2. Memory, Narrative and Voice as Liberatory Praxis in the Apartheid Archive / Christopher C. Sonn -- 3. Working with the Apartheid Archive: Or, of Witness, Testimony and Ghosts / Leswin Laubscher -- 4. Transitioning Racialised Spaces / Carol Long -- Introduction to Part II Whiteness, Blackness and the Diasporic Other / Brett Bowman -- 5. Unsettling Whiteness / Gillian Straker -- 6. Archiving White Lives, Historicising Whiteness / Leswin Laubscher -- 7. Engaging with the Apartheid Archive Project: Voices from the South African Diaspora in Australia / Christopher C. Sonn -- 8. On Animal Mediators and Psychoanalytic Reading Practice / Derek Hook -- Introduction to Part III Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Archive / Carol Long.

Call Number

Sc D 21-818

ISBN

• 9781137263896
• 113726389X

OCLC

860943122

Title

Race, memory and the apartheid archive : towards a transformative psychosocial praxis / edited by Garth Stevens, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa ; Norman Duncan, University of Pretoria, South Africa ; and Derek Hook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Publisher

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in the psychosocial

Studies in the psychosocial.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIV. OF THE WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED ESSAYS.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Stevens, Garth, editor.

Duncan, Norman (Professor of psychology), editor.

Hook, Derek, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-818