Main entry:

Harris, V. S., author.

Title & Author:

Archives and justice : a South African perspective / Verne Harris ; with a foreword byTerry Cook.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Society of American Archivists,
©2007.

Description:

xxviii, 447 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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ISBN:

1931666180 (alk. paper)
9781931666183 (alk. paper)
2000319030390

Subject:

Archives Political aspects South Africa.
Archives Social aspects South Africa.
Archives South Africa Philosophy.
Social justice South Africa.
Archives Aspect politique Afrique du Sud.
Archives Aspect social Afrique du Sud.
Archives Afrique du Sud Philosophie.
Justice sociale Afrique du Sud.
Archives Social aspects
Archives Political aspects
Politics and government
Social conditions
Social justice
Politik
Archiv
Arkiv politiska aspekter Sydafrika.
Arkiv sociala aspekter Sydafrika.
Social rättvisa Sydafrika.
South Africa Politics and government 1989-1994.
South Africa Politics and government 1994-
South Africa Social conditions 1961-1994.
South Africa Social conditions 1994-
Afrique du Sud Politique et gouvernement 1989-1994.
Afrique du Sud Conditions sociales 1961-1994.
Afrique du Sud Conditions sociales 1994-
South Africa
Sydafrika politik och förvaltning.
Sydafrika sociala förhållanden.
Südafrika <Staat>

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250865
Call No.: CD2451 .H3 2007
Status: Available