Bonita Bennett

Dados Biográficos

ID3595102
NOMEBonita Bennett
PRENOMESBonita
SOBRENOMEBennett
ASSINATURABENNETT B
AFILIAÇÕESDistrict Six Museum Cape Town South Africa
ORCID0000-0003-2652-7540
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • In Conversation

    Open AccessBonita Bennett, Claire WintleARTICLEMuseum Worlds2025

    This interview, recorded in January 2025, is based on a presentation that took place as part of the Making Museum Professionals: Transnational Forces workshop. In it, Bonita Bennett discusses her career working at the community-led District Six Museum in South Africa, from 2001 to the present day. The conversation considers her experiences in teaching, community advocacy and activism, and the different roles in which she has served, from voluntee…

  • Memory over Forgetting

    Bonita Bennett, Bonny Ibhawoh et al.ARTICLERadical History Review2025Referências: 12

    The Black Lives Matter social movement in the United States reverberated worldwide and spurred renewed attention by antiracist activists to memorials-and by counterprotestors who supported the memorials. These "memorial wars" built on a half century of emergent community activism and a legacy of a triumphalist tradition of war monuments and celebrations of typically male political leaders. In the revolutionary struggles of 1989 to 1992, correspon…

  • Incarceration

    Open AccessTheano Moussouri, Doris Ash et al.ARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2024

    This special issue considers how museums can take transformative action by interrogating and addressing issues of incarceration. The contributing authors argue that examining museum practice through the lens of incarceration can help reveal and even redress the structures and power dynamics that have generated visible and invisible types of oppressive and violent carcerality. This purpose builds on and extends the contributions museums have alrea…

  • The body remembers

    Open AccessBonita Bennett, Doris AshARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2024

    As museum scholars and practitioners coming from quite different geographies and practicalities, we have chosen to focus on chattel slavery as an extreme form of incarceration in South Africa and the United States. In this essay we reflect on its legacies, referencing physical, psychological as well as cultural dimensions. We hold a mirror to power structures infected by commodification and violence as we examine the stories and tools of enslavem…

  • Necrography

    Open AccessD Hicks, Priya Basil et al.ARTICLEBritish Art Studies2021Citada por: 4Referências: 8

    When it comes to the study of artworks as material culture, there are few more familiar idioms than that of the “life-history” of the object. From Arjun Appadurai’s formulation of “the social life of things” (1986) to Bruno Latour’s business-school model of “actor-networks” (1993), over the past generation a particular variety of materialist anthropology has taken root in those parts of historical studies that deal with things. “If humans have bi…

  • Neutrality is Not an Option, Museums Don’t Need Left‐over Statues

    Open AccessJohn Fraser, Laura‐Edythe S Coleman et al.ARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2020

    During the USA’s COVID-19 disaster, social inequities, and lack of coordination in the healthcare industry laid bare the fragility of the American experiment democracy. Museums shuttered their doors across the nation; the majority of their staff were terminated or furloughed without pay, and many were left with limited access to government support. Amid this crisis, public rage erupted across the globe over the extrajudicial public execution of a…