General Information

Author/Creator

Harris, Verne.

Language

English.

Published

Chicago : Society of Amercian Archivists, c2007.

Physical Description

447 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Archives > Political aspects > South Africa

Archives > Social aspects > South Africa

Archives > South Africa > Philosophy

Social justice > South Africa

South Africa > Politics and government > 1989-1994

South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-

South Africa > Social conditions > 1961-1994

South Africa > Social conditions > 1994-

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

by Verne Harris ; with a foreword by Terry Cook.

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index, p. 429-447.Contents: Foreword: Archival music - Verne Harris and the cracks of memory / Terry Cook -- Introduction: Reaching for hospitality / Verne Harris -- Claiming less, delivering more : a critique of positivist formulations on archives in South Africa -- On (archival) odyssey(s) -- A shaft of darkness : Derrida in the archive -- Concerned with the writings of others : archival canons, discourses, and voices -- "Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is" : Jacques Derrida unplugged -- Exploratory thoughts on current state archives service appraisal policy and the conceptual foundations of macro-appraisal -- Postmodernism and archival appraisal : seven theses -- Law, evidence, and electronic records : a strategic perspective from the global periphery -- Stories and names : archival description as narrating records and constructing meanings, with Wendy Duff -- The record, the archive, and electronic technologies in South Africa -- Redefining archives in South Africa : public archives and society in transition, 1990-1996 -- Knowing right from wrong : the archivist and the protection of people’s rights -- Archives, identity, and place : a dialogue on what it (might) mean(s) to be an African archivist -- The archive is politics -- "A world whose horizon can only be justice" : toward a politics of recordmaking -- Toward a culture of transparency : public rights of access to official records in South Africa, with Christopher Merrett -- Contesting remembering and forgetting : the archive of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- "They should have destroyed more" : the destruction of public records by the South African state in the final years of apartheid, 1990-1994 -- Using the Promotion of access to information act (PAIA) : the case of the South African History Archive -- Unveiling South Africa’s nuclear past -- Actualities : telling truths about the TRC archive.

ISBN

1931666180

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Archival, library and information sciences collection	027.0968 22 HAR		-	-

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