TRANSFORMING THE LEGACY OF LAND DISPOSSESSION: ARCHIVE, ORALITY AND HEALING IN THE CONTEXT OF SAN STORY-TELLING

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
Marlene Winberg

This article examines ways in which we engage the archive and orality to negotiate traumatic pasts in order to transform the legacy of land dispossession. It hones in on the silences of the archive and asks how we draw the inheritance of archival documents and materials into dialogue with living orality and places in the landscape. Who is remembering knowledges and meaning in the landscape of the Northern Cape and how is this being done against the poignant backdrop of the losses resulting from dispossession? How does inter-generational dialogue become an agent in shaping the inheritance of the future? Given the complexity of history and our reading of the past, what does it mean to become a good ancestor? What role could digital technology play in re-shaping identity and heritage among the storytellers, teenagers, ritual specialists and others who populate the region? This study examines the complex tensions between these questions in the context of specific oral history and storytelling projects that took place in previously dispossessed communities in the Northern Cape between 2003 and 2013.

Palíndromo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (29) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Virginie Ruppin

In the context of the global health crisis, our research started four years ago on the question of how to reconcile the teaching of the plastic arts and their practice within the training of the future teacher of schools when there is less and less hours of face-to-face lessons is all the more a topical subject. Indeed, at the present time, university courses are conducted remotely. Our study thus raises the question of the quality and content of the distance course in order to bring about plastic practices among students, future teachers. The hourly decline of this teaching over the past few decades questions the legitimacy, the stakes and the place of the student’s plastic practice. Likewise, the changes and challenges of teaching methods, particularly the emergenceof hybrid training through the use of digital technology, question posture changes in the trainer.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 291-316
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Tsipko

The author of the article analyses the interpretation of the Ukrainian question in the work of A.I. Solzhenitsyn, highlighting his initially weak methodological viewpoints that, according to the author, do not comply with reality. The author believes that insufficient examination of archival documents, including those kept in the USA, – the country of temporary Solzhenitsyn’s emigration, – did not allow the thinker to recognize the real differences of the Ukrainian and Russian nations, existing in the past and projecting into the future. As the result Solzhenitsyn failed to comprehend and forecast the whole complex of the problems and the direction of the Russian-Ukrainian relations development that we can witness now.


2020 ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Neville Bolt

Chapter 2 looks at how individual, group, and collective memory construction occurs in societies; how memories are blended into a form of story-telling that seeks to overturn the hegemonic account of history on which states are built and which is propagated through media outlets over generations. A constant process of reshaping and retelling the insurgent story challenges state control of history. Insurgents seeks to control the past, to take ownership of the present, in order to legitimize their right to the future. Propaganda of the Deed’s violent and heroic acts that travel as electronic images through global networks resonate with the constructed past––a past structured around moments of suffering, grievance, and atrocity.


1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 371-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie F. Gates ◽  
Stephanie M. Schim ◽  
Lillian Ostrand

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-325
Author(s):  
J. C. M ◽  
J. Laas

“Telling a past, dreaming a future” - The essence of narrative pastoral counsellingThe article examines the possibilities of negotiating the double movement created by living towards the future and dreaming out of the future into the present. Story telling in the pastoral environment is suggested as a means of bringing together the past and the expected future. A circular approach to time can help immensely by bringing together past and future in a meaningful way. This becomes possible in the pastoral environment where there is real understanding between pastor and client through thorough communication and the reframing of the past. The importance of language in understanding and the transformative power of narrative are stressed, as well as Christian hope as the most fundamental way of finding meaning out of the future into the present.


Author(s):  
Andrey P. Dmitriyev ◽  
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The article on the material of unpublished archival documents (mainly epistolary) highlights the unknown details of the preparation of the Complete Works of Aleksey Khomyakov, which survived from 1861 to 1907. There are five editions; their differences from each other are investigated. An annotated bibliographic review of the best editions of Aleksey Khomyakov, published in the Russian Diaspora and in the USSR, as well as in Russia over the past 30 years, is given. In anticipation of the release of the modern, scientifically verified Complete Works of the writer in 10 volumes, prepared at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the guidance of Boris Yegorov, the most significant achievements of the research group are described, especially about the finds in the archives and periodicals of unknown works of Aleksey Khomyakov and the publication of his creative manuscripts. For some of them (“Song of the Cossack”, “Experience in Improving Winter Roads by Rolling”, etc.), updated dates are given. A number of texts (“Genius”, “The Sexton”) were first attributed to Aleksey Khomyakov according to stylistic and thematic features, as well as memoirs. The in-neat autographs, fragments of the poems “Winter Anthem” and “The Sexton” are published for the first time, and the full text of Aleksey Khomyakov’s ballad “The Prisoner” (the early 1820s) is presented in the appendix to the article.


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