Verne Harris

Biographic Data

ID126541
NAMEVerne Harris
GIVEN NAMESVerne
FAMILY NAMEHarris
SIGNATUREHARRIS V
AFFILIATIONSNelson Mandela University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS88
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Esprit de Madiba, où es-tu

    Isabelle Richet, Verne HarrisARTICLEPouvoirs2024

    S’appuyant sur les systèmes de savoir indigènes d’Afrique du Sud et l’approche déconstructiviste de Jacques Derrida en particulier, l’auteur interroge ici le lien entre les voix ancestrales et toutes celles qui se relient encore à Nelson Mandela pour mettre en tension la quête d’une justice impossible et sa vocation universelle. L’« esprit de Madiba » devient alors une ressource, un souffle faisant face à tout renoncement

  • Ghosts of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis

    Verne HarrisBOOKGhosts of Archive2020

    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 as a source, or location, of soul for individuals and commun…

  • Hauntology, archivy and banditry: An engagement with Derrida and Zapiro

    Verne HarrisARTICLECritical Arts2015Cited by: 3References: 3

    In this article, I explore what I call 'primary spectral movements' in archive. My exploration is positioned within a framing provided by Derridean hauntology. I suggest that spectral readings of archive unfold fresh epistemologies and ontologies. Drawing on the work of scholars Jacques Derrida, Esther Peeren and Jacob Dlamini, as well as cartoonist Zapiro, I focalise particular ghosted voices and narratives in 2015 South Africa. This becomes the…

  • Antonyms of our remembering

    Open AccessVerne HarrisARTICLEArchives and Museum Informatics2014Cited by: 10References: 5

  • Becoming Worthy Ancestors: Archive, Public Deliberation and Identity in South Africa

    Verne HarrisARTICLESafundi2013

    Xolela Mangcu, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2011, xv + 168 pp. $34.95 (pbk), 978-1-86814-532-4 Deconstructive readings of archive insist that it opens out of the future. Equally, they insis

  • Jacques Derrida meets Nelson Mandela: Archival ethics at the endgame

    Open AccessVerne HarrisARTICLEArchives and Museum Informatics2010Cited by: 5References: 1

  • Against the grain: Psychologies and politics of secrecy

    Open AccessVerne HarrisARTICLEArchives and Museum Informatics2009Cited by: 1References: 2

  • History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa Annie E. Coombs Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts Leslie Witz

    Verne HarrisARTICLEThe Public Historian2004

    Verne Harris, History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a DemocraticSouth Africa; Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts, The Public Historian, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Fall 2004), pp. 115-118

  • History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa; Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts

    Verne HarrisARTICLEThe Public Historian2004

    Book Review| September 01 2004 History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa; Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts Verne Harris Verne Harris Nelson Mandela Foundation Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (4): 115–118. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.115 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Vide…

  • Refiguring the Archive

    A Verdoolaege, C Hamilton et al.ARTICLEAfrica2004

    Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Jane Taylor, Michele Pickover, Graeme Reid and Razia Saleh(eds), Refiguring the Archive. Cape Town: David Philip (hard covers R 240, ISBN 0 86486 507 4); Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (hard covers €106.00, US$117.00, £73.00, ISBN 1 4020 0743 4). 2002, 368 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 2

  • Unveiling South Africa's nuclear past

    Verne Harris, Sello Hatang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2004Cited by: 3

    Research into South African apartheid-era nuclear weapons history has been severely hampered by longstanding secrecy laws, not to mention the destruction of most policy records. The recent declassification and release of a 1975 Defence Force memorandum recommending the acquisition of nuclear weapons, however, shows that important documents have survived. This document sheds new light on military attitudes about nuclear acquisition, and about the …

  • Refiguring the Archive

    Open AccessCarolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris et al.BOOKRefiguring the Archive2002

  • Stories and names: Archival description as narrating records and constructing meanings

    Open AccessWendy M Duff, Wendy Duff et al.ARTICLEArchives and Museum Informatics2002Cited by: 14References: 1

  • The archival sliver: Power, memory, and archives in South Africa

    Open AccessVerne HarrisARTICLEArchives and Museum Informatics2002Cited by: 51References: 4

  • The difficulty of calling Derrida ‘difficult’

    Verne Harris, Sello HatangARTICLEScrutiny22000

    (2000). The difficulty of calling Derrida ‘difficult’. Scrutiny2: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 78-79

  • Archivists, Archives and Professionalism

    Verne HarrisARTICLESouth African Historical Journal1995Cited by: 1