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Nationalism and exile in an age of solidarity: Frelimo–ZANU relations in Mozambique (1975–1980)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This article contributes to our knowledge on the intricate relations between host governments
and liberation movements and on the workings of transnational military partnerships in the anticolonial
struggles of the 1970s, ...
Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link?
(Cogent OA, 2018)
This study evaluates durable solutions in relation to refugees from East
Africa. It particularly focuses on the Great Lakes countries of Rwanda, Burundi,
Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The study is based on the ...
Memory, oral history and conservation at Robben Island's Bluestone Quarry
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This article is a critical examination of a conservation project on the restoration of the Stone Wall at Bluestone Quarry on Robben Island, a world heritage site. The project attracted different stakeholders with diverse ...
Debates on memory politics and counter-memory practices in South Africa in the 1990s
(UNISA Press, 2018)
Memory politics are often regarded as the “soft” issues contested in the aftermath of political and social upheaval. Yet critical public debates on memory, justice, impunity and reconciliation in South Africa prompted by ...
Empathy’s echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
The concept of empathy has been set to work, across a range of fields, to mark a break with the relational patterns of apartheid. Similarly, empathy has been identified, historically, as that which, within apartheid and ...
On uncertainty
(University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities, 2018)
There is some uncertainty written into the form of this paper because, while it seeks to use scholarly procedures in engaging with the philosophical questions provoked by Ludwig Wittgenstein's late speculative essay On ...
Breaking the mold of disciplinary area studies
(Indiana University Press, 2016)
At the outset of an edited volume on Intellectuals and African Development, the question is posed about what went wrong.1 The call for self-reflection perhaps anticipates a further question—about how to account for the ...
Aftershocks: Psychotechnics in the wake of apartheid
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
What we at first found intriguing about Simon Gush’s Red, what the documentary and the installation seemed to mutually conjure, was the Mandela car as a body to be mourned.2 Mourning recurred as a latent theme through the ...
The ‘Rough edge of deterritorialisation’: Contemplation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
To frame this paper, which given its focus on the installation Red should ostensibly deal with a question of aesthetics and technology, with an epigraph that situates the contemplative capacity of a cow alongside the echo ...
Uncontained and the Constraints of Historicism as Method: A reply to Mario Pissarra
(Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), 2013)
Mario Pissarra’s rigorous and considered critical review of Uncontained: Opening the
Community Arts Project archive (2012) marks a significant contribution to starting a
discussion that the book and exhibition aimed to ...