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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

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

Foreword / by Michael Wessells -- Introduction: Integration of knowledge on children and political violence / Charles W. Greenbaum, Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia, and Carolyn Hamilton -- Developmental aspects of political violence : attachment theoretical approach / Raija-Leena Punamaki -- Growing up with fear : the impact of terrorism and political violence on the development of children / James Garbarino, Amy Governale, and Danielle Nesi -- A systematic review of the socio-economic effects of exposure to political conflict / Sami H. Miaari and Amit Loewenthal -- Ethical and methodological considerations for researching children exposed to political violence / Cyril Bennouna and Lindsay Stark -- Effects of political violence exposure on the family and parenting environment : the case of Palestinians and Israelis / Eric F. Dubow, Lynnel C. Goodman, Paul Boxer, Erika Y. Niwa, L. Rowell Huesmann, Simha Landau, Shira Dvir Gvirsman, Khalil Shikaki, and Cathy Smith -- The relationship between the exposure of Palestinian adolescents to cumulative political violence and the development of post-traumatic stress symptoms : a study of the moderating effects of age, gender, and parenting styles / Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia and Charles W. Greenbaum -- Paying attention to the children : the intergenerational transmission of father's traumatic wartime captivity / Zahava Solomon, Gadi Zerach, and Alana Siegel -- The development of moral thinking in youth exposed to war-related violence / Cecilia Wainryb -- Children born of war in northern Uganda : stigma, marginalization, and resistance / Myriam Denov -- "My heart feels chained" : the effects of economic precarity on syrian refugee parents living in Lebanon / Bree Akesson and Dena Badawi -- Self-regulation capacities in children exposed to trauma and political violence / Sophie Brickman, Meir Fox, and Ruth Pat-Horenczyk -- Teachers as agents of clinical practice during armed conflict / Michelle Slone, Yael Mayer, and Ayelet Gilady -- Empowering culturally diverse populations affected by violence : realizing the promise of strengthening family interventions / Jordan Farrar and Theresa Betancourt -- Promoting resilience in children exposed to war and political violence by strengthening parenting / Abigail Gewirtz, Hayley Anne Rahl-Brigman, and Kate Senich -- Therapeutic interventions with Israeli children exposed to continuous traumatic stress of political violence / Tamar Lavi -- Children not soldiers : preventing the recruitment and use of children by armed forces and groups / Francesca Capone -- The role of the International Criminal Court in the prevention of exposure of children to political violence / Gloria-Atiba Davies -- Transitional justice and children : prioritizing child protection and education reform / Cecile Aptel, Saudamini Siegrist, and Friedrich Affolter -- Gendering security : the role of young women and girls in terrorism and (countering) violent extremism / Elizabeth Yarrow -- Conclusion: Research, intervention, and prevention of children's exposure to political violence : the role of the social sciences and international law / Charles W. Greenbaum, Muhammad M. HajYahia, and Carolyn Hamilton.

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

The essays in this volume utilise the idea of public intellectualism as an interpretive prism and activist principle within a historical South African context. They offer fascinating insights into the thought and work of a number of public intellectuals across a range of disciplines - from journalism and arts criticism to history and politics.

In this timely and erudite collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. Drawing primarily on materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, they propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society.