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Building a Postcolonial Archive? Gender, Collective Memory and Citizenship in Post-apartheid South Africa
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Since the ending of apartheid, the state, political parties, civil society and ordinary people in South Africa have attempted to deal with the traumatic legacies of the past to engender a common seAbstract:
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The archaeology of knowledge
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
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Revisiting positionality and the thesis of situated knowledge
TL;DR: Feminist and queer epistemologies have been influential throughout the social sciences by means of the development of a set of interrelated approaches involving positionality, partiality, reflexivi... as discussed by the authors.
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Working With Embroideries and Counter-Maps: Engaging Memory and Imagination Within Decolonizing Frameworks
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the practices and dilemmas of doing decolonial research and highlight the need for research that excavates the specifics of a historical material context and produces evidence of previously silenced narratives.
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A feminist postcolonial examination of female principals' experiences in South African secondary schools
Raj Mestry,Michèle Schmidt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative approach was employed using a post-colonial feminist perspective to examine the barriers South African women experience and found that stereotypes concerning female inadequacy as leaders persist and act to distort perceptions of male and female performance and potential.
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Cultural-historical geographies of the archive: fragments, objects and ghosts
TL;DR: A review of the increasingly diverse ways in which geographers are engaging with archives can be found in this article, where the authors provide an overview of the central characteristics of work in this field, as well as considering the discipline's wider relationship with archival material.
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The archaeology of knowledge
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
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Archives, records, and power: The making of modern memory
Joan M. Schwartz,Terry Cook +1 more
TL;DR: Archival Science as discussed by the authors explores the theme "Archives, records, and power" in the first of two thematic issues of Archival Science that will explore the theme, "Archival, Records, and Power".
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Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa
Carli Coetzee,Sarah Nuttall +1 more
TL;DR: A collection of essays by South African academics looks at the ways the country is dealing with its past, a complex mixture of colonialism, slavery, apartheid, struggle, and guilt as mentioned in this paper.
Politics of writing
TL;DR: I started writing simply for the pleasure of writing and love the rhythms that can be created in sentences or making words into music which Amis Oz speaks about of his new novel, The Same Sea.
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Evaluating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
TL;DR: The usefulness of acknowledged truth to deal with South Africa's past is shown to have been neutralised by wider concerns of social and criminal justice as mentioned in this paper, and the truth offered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission increasingly appears of limited value.
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