“…Includes bibliographical references and index, p. 429-447.Contents: 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.…”
