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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

A major goal of this volume is to create a forum for the integration of three areas: theory and research on the effects of exposure to political violence (EPV), intervention to aid victims of EPV, and the prevention of EPV. It notes the lack of application of social science research and theory to prevention of EPV.

General introduction -- Legal sources, structure and accountability mechanisms -- Killing and ill-treatment of children -- Recruitment and use of children -- Sexual violence -- Child abduction -- Attacks against hospitals and schools -- Denial of humanitarian access and assistance -- Conclusion.

Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun