1st Edition
Ghosts of Archive Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis
By Verne Harris
Copyright 2021
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ghosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction, intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamentally and structurally spectral and that the work of archive is justice.
Drawing on more than 20 years of the author’s research on deconstruction and archive, the book posits archive as an essential resource for social justice activism and... Read more
Introduction: A Framing; 1. The Trouble with Archive; 2. Elements of Haunting; 3. Spectral Archive; 4. Reckoning with Pasts; 5. A Time to Forget; 6. Cixous Insist(er)ing; 7. Praxis; Epilogue: Reframing
Biography
Verne Harris is an adjunct professor at the Nelson Mandela University. He served in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and was Nelson Mandela’s archivist between 2004 and 2013.
