LEADER 03197nam a2200301 a 4500008 eng 003 hubpceuo 020 1931666180 (alk. paper) 041 eng 082 0 027.0968 22 100 1 Harris, Verne. 245 0 Archives and justice : a South African perspective / |cby Verne Harris ; with a foreword by Terry Cook. 260 Chicago : |bSociety of Amercian Archivists, |cc2007. 300 447 p. ; 23 cm. 500 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. 650 0 Archives |xPolitical aspects |xSouth Africa 650 0 Archives |xSocial aspects |xSouth Africa 650 0 Archives |xSouth Africa |xPhilosophy 650 0 Social justice |xSouth Africa 650 0 South Africa |xPolitics and government |x1989-1994 650 0 South Africa |xPolitics and government |x1994- 650 0 South Africa |xSocial conditions |x1961-1994 650 0 South Africa |xSocial conditions |x1994- 952 |00 |10 |40 |6027_096800000000000_22_HAR |70 |8ARC |92190OSA |bOSA |d2011-05-25 |eOSA Holdings |l0 |o027.0968 22 HAR |r2011-05-25 |t1 |w2011-05-25 |yBK 920 01 xY6aJDXJ 992 01 027_096800000000000_22_HAR |bZXS_ZQTRZZZZZZZZZZZ_XX_IP8 966 |cIn the Research Room