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Decolonisation, Critical Methodologies and Why Stories Matter

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Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive

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The Apartheid Archive Project seeks to expand the archive by inserting everyday stories into the public record, thereby allowing for the reconstruction of historical memory, voicing silenced stories and recognising experiences of excluded communities. Stevens, Duncan and Sonn (in this volume) note that personal memories are the primary raw data within the Apartheid Archive Project at present, and that narratives are a key means for conveying stories about racism during the apartheid era (see Mankoskwi & Rappaport, 1995, for a further explication of the distinction between stories and narratives).

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  1. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Garth Stevens

  2. University of Pretoria, South Africa

    Norman Duncan

  3. Birkbeck, University of London, UK

    Derek Hook

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Sonn, C.C., Stevens, G., Duncan, N. (2013). Decolonisation, Critical Methodologies and Why Stories Matter. In: Stevens, G., Duncan, N., Hook, D. (eds) Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263902_15

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