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Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive StudiesinthePsychosocial Alsointheseries: StephenFrosh HAUNTINGS:PSYCHOANALYSISANDGHOSTLYTRANSMISSIONS UriHadar PSYCHOANALYSISANDSOCIALINVOLVEMENT DerekHook (POST)APARTHEIDCONDITIONS:PsychoanalysisandSocialFormation MargaritaPalacios RADICALSOCIALITY:StudiesonViolence,DisobedienceandtheVicissitudesof Belonging AlsobyGarthStevens A‘RACE’AGAINSTTIME:PsychologyandChallengestoDeracialisationinSouth Africa(co-editor) AlsobyNormanDuncan ‘RACE’,RACISM,KNOWLEDGEPRODUCTIONANDPSYCHOLOGYINSOUTH AFRICA(co-editor) SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND INTER-GROUP RELATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA (co-editor) DISCOURSESONDIFFERENCE,DISCOURSESONOPPRESSION(co-editor) AlsobyDerekHook FOUCAULT,PSYCHOLOGYANDTHEANALYTICSOFPOWER THESOCIALPSYCHOLOGYOFCOMMUNICATION(co-author) THEPSYCHICLIFEOFTHEPOSTCOLONIAL ACRITICALPSYCHOLOGYOFTHEPOSTCOLONIAL:TheMindofApartheid CRITICALPSYCHOLOGY SELF,COMMUNITYANDPSYCHOLOGY(co-editor) PSYCHOPATHOLOGYANDSOCIALPREJUDICE(co-editor) DEVELOPMENTALPSYCHOLOGY(co-editor) BODYPOLITICS:POWER,KNOWLEDGEANDTHEBODY(co-editor) Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis Editedby Garth Stevens UniversityoftheWitwatersrand,SouthAfrica Norman Duncan UniversityofPretoria,SouthAfrica and Derek Hook Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon,UK Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Garth Stevens, Norman DuncanandDerekHook2013 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2013 Foreword©PhilomenaEssed2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-26389-6 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. 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Contents ListofIllustrations viii Foreword ix Acknowledgements xii NotesonContributors xv 1 TheApartheidArchiveProject,thePsychosocialand PoliticalPraxis 1 GarthStevens,NormanDuncanandDerekHook IntroductiontoPart I TheorisingtheArchive LeswinLaubscher 2 Memory,NarrativeandVoiceasLiberatoryPraxis intheApartheidArchive 25 GarthStevens,NormanDuncanandChristopherC.Sonn 3 WorkingwiththeApartheidArchive:Or,ofWitness, TestimonyandGhosts 45 LeswinLaubscher 4 TransitioningRacialisedSpaces 61 CarolLong IntroductiontoPart II Whiteness,Blackness andtheDiasporicOther BrettBowman 5 UnsettlingWhiteness 91 GillianStraker 6 ArchivingWhiteLives,HistoricisingWhiteness 109 KopanoRateleandLeswinLaubscher 7 EngagingwiththeApartheidArchiveProject:Voicesfrom theSouthAfricanDiasporainAustralia 128 ChristopherC.Sonn v vi Contents 8 OnAnimalMediatorsandPsychoanalyticReadingPractice 146 DerekHook IntroductiontoPart III Race,GenderandSexuality intheArchive CarolLong 9 Intersectionsof‘Race’,SexandGenderinNarratives onApartheid 169 TamaraShefer 10 Desire,FearandEntitlement:SexualisingRaceand RacialisingSexualityin(Re)memberingApartheid 188 KopanoRateleandTamaraShefer 11 GenderedSubjectivitiesandRelationalReferencesinBlack Women’sNarrativesofApartheidRacism 208 LaKeashaG.SullivanandGarthStevens IntroductiontoPart IV MethodintheArchive ChristopherC.Sonn 12 OnGenealogicalApproachestoWorkingwiththe ApartheidArchive:ACriticalHistoryoftheSouth AfricanPaedophile 237 BrettBowmanandDerekHook 13 HowDoWe‘Treat’ApartheidHistory? 258 DerekHook 14 Self-ConsciousnessandImpressionManagementinthe AuthoringofApartheid-RelatedNarratives 275 GillianEagleandBrettBowman 15 Decolonisation,CriticalMethodologiesandWhy StoriesMatter 295 ChristopherC.Sonn,GarthStevensandNormanDuncan 16 FromtheWhiteInteriortoanExteriorBlackness:A LacanianDiscourseAnalysisofApartheidNarratives 315 DavidPavón-CuéllarandIanParker Contents vii AppendixA:NarratorDetailsandCorpusofNarrativesExamined inThisVolume(N=48) 333 MasterReferenceList 335 Index 360 Illustrations 1 Informalblackhousingor‘squattercamp’inthe1950s 18 2 White,middle-classsuburbanhousingandpeoplein Johannesburginthe1980s 18 3 White,middle-classsuburbanhousingandchildrenin Johannesburginthe1980s 81 4 Unidentifiedblacktownshipstreetsceneinvolving childrenplaying 82 5 White,working-classhousingandlifeinJohannesburgin the1980s 164 6 White,middle-classsuburbanhome,childrenandblack domesticworkerinJohannesburginthe1980s 164 7 Black,working-classhousingandpeopleinJohannesburg 228 8 White,middle-classsuburbanhousingandpeoplein Johannesburginthe1980s 228 viii Foreword This volume invites storytelling. Readers feel immediately drawn to reflect on their own relation to the apartheid period, whether as an insider or as, in my case, an outsider to the South African experience. I was awakened to South Africa in the early 1970s by a newspaper clipping,apicture,pinnedagainstthedoorofmysister’sstudentapart- ment: Black man on sidewalk in Johannesburg stepping aside to give way to the leashed dog accompanying a white man. ‘This is Vorster’s apartheid, where dogs are superior to black people’, a line explained. Fascinated, bewildered, indignant and horrified, the image burnt onto myretinaovermanyvisitstomyoldersister.Onceastudentmyself,in the 1980s, I joined the boycott against South Africa, at the time living intheNetherlands.Ivividlyrecalltheveryeffective‘don’tsqueezeout a South African’ anti-Outspan slogan with the graphic logo of a black headdrippingblood.TheeverydaynessofrecoilingawayfromOutspan oranges at the greengrocer stood in sharp contrast to gruesome South Africa.Nomoderationthere,onlyextremebehaviour,ruthlesswhites. Imagine the consternation when a small package from South Africa arrived in my university mailbox, in the late 1980s. I could not get myself to open it, given the cultural boycott. After a few days, I finally reasoned:Whatifsomeonewhowasresistingapartheidsentmesome- thing, how could I possibly boycott that? The small green-coloured booklet inside was a report by Joha Louw-Potgieter, subsequently pub- lished as an article in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology: ‘CovertRacism:AnApplicationofEssed’sAnalysisintheSouthAfrican Context’(1989,8,307–319).Louw-Potgietercollectedaccountsofblack people. These people were all students in a supposedly liberal institu- tion,oneoftheEnglishuniversities,opentoallraces.Thatracismcould alsobesubtleinapartheidSouthAfricawasthelastthingIhadexpected, letalonethatmyownmethodofanalysingaccountsofeverydayracism in the Netherlands and the United States of America, published a year before(Essed,1988),wouldberelevanttothatcontext. Opening that seemingly contaminated package revealed similarities acrossnationalborders:thecoveringupanddenialofracism.Examples ofeverydayracismat thoseopenuniversitiescouldhavetakenplacein the Netherlands, the United Kingdom or Canada. Situational modera- tion changed the face of racism, but not the underlying mechanisms ix
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