ISBN

1931666180; 9781931666183

Statement of Responsibility

Verne Harris ; with a foreword byTerry Cook.

Publication Information

Chicago : Society of American Archivists

Physical Description

xxviii, 447 p. 23 cm.

Contents

Foreword: Archival music - Verne Harris and the cracks of memory / Terry Cook -- Introduction: Reaching for hospitality / Verne Harris -- Section I: Discourses -- 1 Claiming less, delivering more: a critique of positivist formulations on archives in South Africa -- 2 On (archival) odyssey(s) -- 3 A shaft of darkness: Derrida in the archive -- 4 Concerned with the writings of others: archival canons, discourses, and voices -- 5 "Something is happening here and you don't know what it is": Jacques Derrida unplugged -- Section II: Narratives -- 6 Exploratory thoughts on current state archives service appraisal policy and the conceptual foundations of macroappraisal -- 7 Postmodernism and archival appraisal: seven theses -- 8 Law, evidence, and electronic records: a strategic perspective from the global periphery -- 9 Stories and names: archival description as narrating records and constructing meanings, with Wendy Duff -- 10 The record, the archive, and electronic technologies in South Africa -- Section III: Politics and ethics -- 11 Redefining archives in South Africa: public archives and society in transition, 1990-1996 -- 12 Knowing right from wrong: the archivist and the protection of people's rights -- 13 Archives, identity, and place: a dialogue on what it (might) mean(s) to be an African archivist, with Sello Hatang -- 14 The archive is politics -- 15 "A world whose horizon can only be justice": toward a politics of recordmaking -- Section IV: Pasts and secrets -- 16 Toward a culture of transparency: public rights of access to official records in South Africa, with Christopher Merrett -- 17 Contesting remembering and forgetting: the archive of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 18 "They should have destroyed more": the destruction of public records by the South African state in the final years of apartheid, 1990-1994 -- 19 Using the Promotion of access to information act (PAIA): the case of the South African History Archive -- 20 Unveiling South Africa's nuclear past, with Sello Hatang and Peter Liberman -- Section V: Actualities -- 21 Actualities: telling truths about the TRC archive.