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Hintergründe der inhaltlicher Konzeption von "Shaka Zulu", einer mit finanzieller amerikanischer Unterstützung von der South African Broadcasting Corporation gedrehten TV-Serie über den historischen Zuluhäuptling Shaka, die 1986/87 weltweit in zahlreichen Ländern gezeigt wurde. Es werden Parallelen gesehen zwischen dem historischen Geschehen und der gegenwärtigen politischen und sozialen Situation in Südafrika, insbesondere wird die Rolle Gatsha Buthelezis mit der Shakas verglichen. Beispielhaft und auf subtile Weise sollten so Warnungen ausgesprochen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten für die gegenwärtigen Konflikte aufgezeigt werden. (DÜI-Fwr)

The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of the democratic project and often centres on an imagined public sphere where this takes place. But this imagined foundation of how we live collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse across the world in the digital age, with many democracies apparently unable to solve problems through talk - or even to agree on who speaks, in what ways and where. In this timely and erudite collection, writers from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with the examination of historical cases and contemporary events to demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. Drawing primarily on insights and materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, the authors in this volume propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society. The contributions examine charged examples from the Global South, such as the centuries old Timbuktu archive, Nelson Mandela's powerful absent presence in 1960s public life, and the contemporary debates around the 2015/2016 student activism of #rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall. These cases show how issues of public discussion circulate in unpredictable ways.Babel Unbound will be of interest to anyone looking to find alternative ways of thinking about publicness in contemporary society in order to make better sense of the cacophony of conversations in circulation.

"Contents " -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Orthographic and Name Notes" -- "Tribing and Untribing the Archive" -- "Section One: Mortified, Marooned, Mobilised" -- "Negotiating a South African Inheritance: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century 'Traditional' Collections at the Johannesburg Art Gallery" -- "Shifting Contexts: Material, Process and Contemporary Art in Times of Change" -- "'(Re)discovering the Correct History': Tradition and Custom, the Archival Record and Identity in Contemporary KwaZulu-Natal" -- "Section Two: Layered Landscapes, Segregated Spaces" -- "Archaeological Contexts and the Creation of Social Categories Before the Zulu Kingdom" -- "Making Identities in the Thukela-Mzimvubu Region c.1770–c.1940" -- "The Tribal History Project, 1862–4" -- "A.T. Bryant's Map of the 'Native Clans in Pre-Shakan Times'" -- "The Historiography of the KwaMachi People: A Frontier Community between Zulu and Mpondo in the Nineteenth Century" -- "Re-tribe and Resist: The Ethnogenesis of a Creolised Raiding Band in Response to Colonisation" -- "'We of the White Men's Country': The Remaking of the Qadi Chiefdom, 1830s to1910" -- "Tribing and Untribing the Archive Volume 2 " -- "Section Three: Significant (Mis)identifications" -- "Forging Identities in an Uncertain World: Changing Notions of Self and Other in Early Colonial Natal" -- "'A Paralysis of Perspective': Image and Textin the Creation of an African Chief" -- "Auxiliary Modes of Collecting: Circulation and Curation of Photographs from the Mariannhill Mission in KwaZulu-Natal,1880s to 1914" -- "Ethnologised Pasts and Their Archival Futures: Construing the Archive of Southern KwaZulu-Natal Pertinent to the Period Before 1910" -- "The Natal Government Railways and Their Productions of 'the Zulu'" -- "Section Four: Archival Biographies

Volume 1. Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Orthographic and name notes. Tribing and untribing the archives / Carolyn Hamilton and Nessa Leibhammer. Section 1 Mortified, marooned, mobilised : Negotiating a South African inheritance: nineteenth- an dearly twentieth- century "traditional" collections at the Johannesburg Art Gallery / Nessa Leibhammer -- Shifting contexts: material, process and contemporary art in times of change / Nontobeko Ntombela -- "(Re)discovering the correct history": tradition and custom, the archival record and identity in contemporary KwaZulu-Natal / Grant McNulty. Section 2 Layered landscapes, segregated spaces : Archaeological contexts and the creation of social categories before the Zulu Kingdom / Gavin Whitelaw and Simon Hall -- Making identities in the Thukela-Mzimvubu region c.1770-c.1940 / John Wright -- The tribal history project, 1862-4 / Jeff Guy -- A.T. Bryant's map of the "Native clans in pre-Shakan times" / Norman Etherington -- The historiography of the KwaMachi people: a frontier community between Zulu and Mpondo in the nineteenth century / Nokuthula P. Cele -- Re-tribe and resist: the ethnogenesis of a Creolised raiding band in response to colonisation / Sam Challis -- "We of the white men's country": the remaking of the Qadi chiefdom, 1830s to 1910 / Heather Hughes and Mwelela Cele