Ciraj Rassool
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3613664 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ciraj Rassool |
| PRENOMES | Ciraj |
| SOBRENOME | Rassool |
| ASSINATURA | RASSOOL C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7269-2796 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Restitution and rehumanisation
This article makes an argument for rehumanisation as a methodology of restitution, one whose meanings have significant potential, especially in understanding restitution as distinct from repatriation and Rückgabe. While repatriation and Rückgabe refer to projects of giving back, restitution signals an anticolonial politics of reclamation, restoration and return. The work of restitution belongs to a politics of anti-colonial claims-making, while r…
Restitution versus repatriation
From Collective Leadership to Presidentialism
This article goes beyond merely drawing on the archive to plot a narrative of South African resistance leader I. B. Tabata's biography as a means of under- standing identity issues about the individual, political movement and the na- tion. It is part of a larger project that tries to push political biography beyond modernist documentary methods and social history frames of individual and social context. It focuses on authorship and writing as one…
Necrography
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…
The Politics of Nonracialism in South Africa
This essay is a study of how fixities of race and tribe were made out of multiple colonialisms and apartheid in South Africa, notwithstanding social fluidity and hybridity. It also examines how modes of racial and ethnic governance were contested, especially through the politics of nonracialism, which was not a politics of racelessness but an attentiveness to the constructedness of race. Nevertheless, some approaches to nonracialism were framed a…
Unsettled History
Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 to South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup ®. Conventionally represented as a time of rectifying the silences and distortions of settler history through inclusion and recovery, the focus here instead is on the shifts in processes and locations of historicizing and the unsettled sta…
Human Remains, the Disciplines of the Dead, and the South African Memorial Complex
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The Politics of Heritage in Africa
Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disp…
Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
This special issue on the ‘South African empire’ evolved from the South African empire research project, the origins of which lie in the discomfort of a number of historians of Namibia with dominan
Re-storing the Skeletons of Empire
This article argues that empire should be understood not only as geography or network, but also as extractive, hierarchical and stratified relations of knowledge, where the modern museum emerged as one of its key institutions and primary sites. The focus of this examination of empire as epistemology is the process of the return of the remains of Klaas and Trooi Pienaar to South Africa for reburial in 2012, seen in relation to other return process…
Exhibit Reviews
Fetish Modernity (Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm) Remaking an Ethnographic Museum in Cologne (The New Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum—Cultures of the World) The George W. Bush Presidential Center (Dallas, Texas) Moving on Asia: Towards a New Art Network 2004–2013 (Gallery LOOP, Seoul, and City Gallery Wellington) L'Art Nouveau: La Révolution Décorative and Tamara de Lempicka (La Reine de l'Art Déco, Pinacothèque de Paris) Staatliches Museum Ägyptisc…
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa
Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artifacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa turned into a perfect example of the visual dimensions of football. Stadiums were built and marketed as tourist attractions, …
Museums in a Global World
The following conversation took place during the Critical Heritage Studies conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 6 June 2012. The initial idea and topic was suggested by Kylie Message, the session was chaired by Conal McCarthy, and the recording was transcribed by Jennifer Walklate and edited by Conal McCarthy and Jennifer Walklate
Toward a critical heritage studies
Anna Karlström’s article made me think of \nthe inaugural conference of the International \nAssociation of Critical Heritage Studies held in \nGothenburg in June 2012. At the conference, \nheritage scholars and graduate students \ngathered from around the world—though \nmainly from Britain, Australia, and Sweden— \nto discuss key debates in the rapidly \ndeveloping, wide-ranging field of heritage. \nThe location, the University of Gothenburg, \nw…
Visualizing the game
Fields of Play’
This article examines the distinctive features of the District Six Museum’s memory work on the history and heritage of apartheid forced removals in Cape Town, and shows how these approaches were applied in the museum to a project through which a new exhibition on the history of football in Cape Town was created. Since its inception in December 1994, the District Six Museum has become one of the most prominent examples of new museums whose methods…
Repackaging the past for South African tourism
The Challenges of Rethinking South African Political Biography
(2010). THE CHALLENGES OF RETHINKING SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY: A REPLY TO JONATHAN HYSLOP. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 41, SUBJECTS OF STELLENBOSCH: SNAPSHOTS OF EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF POWER, pp. 116-120
Rethinking Documentary History and South African Political Biography
South African political biography has largely reproduced a ‘biographical illusion’ by approaching political lives as characterised by an ordered sequence of acts, events and works, with individuals characterised by stability, autonomy, self-determination and rational choice. The concerns of this approach have been to construct national histories in which leaders have been made to speak as national subjects through resistance history. The document…
Power, Knowledge and the Politics of Public Pasts
This article examines the ways in which the disciplines of history and archaeology in South Africa relate and how they have negotiated the public as part of their disciplinary practices of producing knowledge about the past that is accessible. It presents an analysis of questions of knowledge and power, and the different ways that scholars working broadly as 'historians' or 'archaeologists' have viewed the relationship between expertise and 'comm…
History Anchored in Politics
(2006). History Anchored in Politics: An Interview with Martin Legassick. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 19-42
Family Stories or a Group Portrait? South Africa on Display at the KIT Tropenmuseum, 2002-2003
This article examines the making of a temporary exhibition, Familieverhalen uit Zuid-Afrika (South African Family Stories) that was installed at the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT) Tropenmuseum (Royal Tropical Institute Museum) in Amsterdam in 2002–2003. It does so in the context of collecting and exhibitionary histories at the Tropenmuseum and its recent attempts to reframe its ethnographic legacies. Familieverhalen is analysed through…
Sydafrika och historien
This article deals with the construction of public history in South Africa during the 1990's. Two examples are used to problematize the claims of history being based on written sources and heritage. The authors want to take the field of heritage seriously. McGregor Museum, a flagship in the Northern Cape province, has tried to transform the old excluding radial story told there to a new All South African History. They have tried an Addition of Me…
No End of a [HistoryJ Lesson
Interview with Elizabeth van Heyningen, Nigel Worden and Vivian Bickford-Smith
The 1952 Jan Van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival
For all approaches to the South African past the icon of Jan Van Riebeeck looms large. Perspectives supportive of the political project of white domination created and perpetuate the icon as the bearer of civilization to the sub-continent and its source of history. Opponents of racial oppression have portrayed Van Riebeeck as public (history) enemy number one of the South African national past. Van Riebeeck remains the figure around which South A…
Re-storing the Skeletons of Empire
This article argues that empire should be understood not only as geography or network, but also as extractive, hierarchical and stratified relations of knowledge, where the modern museum emerged as one of its key institutions and primary sites. The focus of this examination of empire as epistemology is the process of the return of the remains of Klaas and Trooi Pienaar to South Africa for reburial in 2012, seen in relation to other return process…
South Africa
Afrique du Sud : le monde en un pays. Instants de rencontres du touriste international avec le monde sauvage, le primitif et la modernité. - Au cours de la transition démocratique du début des années 1990, le tourisme en est venu à être considéré comme le «passeport» pour le développement. Dans ce consensus naissant, l'Africanité du tourisme sud-africain s'articulait en une composition d'images - « le monde en un pays » - autour de la vie sauvage…
Power, Knowledge and the Politics of Public Pasts
This article examines the ways in which the disciplines of history and archaeology in South Africa relate and how they have negotiated the public as part of their disciplinary practices of producing knowledge about the past that is accessible. It presents an analysis of questions of knowledge and power, and the different ways that scholars working broadly as 'historians' or 'archaeologists' have viewed the relationship between expertise and 'comm…
Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
This special issue on the ‘South African empire’ evolved from the South African empire research project, the origins of which lie in the discomfort of a number of historians of Namibia with dominan
The Politics of Nonracialism in South Africa
This essay is a study of how fixities of race and tribe were made out of multiple colonialisms and apartheid in South Africa, notwithstanding social fluidity and hybridity. It also examines how modes of racial and ethnic governance were contested, especially through the politics of nonracialism, which was not a politics of racelessness but an attentiveness to the constructedness of race. Nevertheless, some approaches to nonracialism were framed a…
Necrography
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…
The Dog, the Rabbit and the Reluctant Historians
Visualizing the game
Toward a critical heritage studies
Anna Karlström’s article made me think of \nthe inaugural conference of the International \nAssociation of Critical Heritage Studies held in \nGothenburg in June 2012. At the conference, \nheritage scholars and graduate students \ngathered from around the world—though \nmainly from Britain, Australia, and Sweden— \nto discuss key debates in the rapidly \ndeveloping, wide-ranging field of heritage. \nThe location, the University of Gothenburg, \nw…
No End of a [HistoryJ Lesson
Foundations of a New Mythology
The Dog, the Rabbit and the Reluctant Historians
The 1952 Jan Van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival
For all approaches to the South African past the icon of Jan Van Riebeeck looms large. Perspectives supportive of the political project of white domination created and perpetuate the icon as the bearer of civilization to the sub-continent and its source of history. Opponents of racial oppression have portrayed Van Riebeeck as public (history) enemy number one of the South African national past. Van Riebeeck remains the figure around which South A…
For the ‘Father of the Children’
South Africa
Afrique du Sud : le monde en un pays. Instants de rencontres du touriste international avec le monde sauvage, le primitif et la modernité. - Au cours de la transition démocratique du début des années 1990, le tourisme en est venu à être considéré comme le «passeport» pour le développement. Dans ce consensus naissant, l'Africanité du tourisme sud-africain s'articulait en une composition d'images - « le monde en un pays » - autour de la vie sauvage…
No End of a [HistoryJ Lesson
Interview with Elizabeth van Heyningen, Nigel Worden and Vivian Bickford-Smith
Sydafrika och historien
This article deals with the construction of public history in South Africa during the 1990's. Two examples are used to problematize the claims of history being based on written sources and heritage. The authors want to take the field of heritage seriously. McGregor Museum, a flagship in the Northern Cape province, has tried to transform the old excluding radial story told there to a new All South African History. They have tried an Addition of Me…
History Anchored in Politics
(2006). History Anchored in Politics: An Interview with Martin Legassick. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 19-42
Family Stories or a Group Portrait? South Africa on Display at the KIT Tropenmuseum, 2002-2003
This article examines the making of a temporary exhibition, Familieverhalen uit Zuid-Afrika (South African Family Stories) that was installed at the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT) Tropenmuseum (Royal Tropical Institute Museum) in Amsterdam in 2002–2003. It does so in the context of collecting and exhibitionary histories at the Tropenmuseum and its recent attempts to reframe its ethnographic legacies. Familieverhalen is analysed through…
Repackaging the past for South African tourism
The Challenges of Rethinking South African Political Biography
(2010). THE CHALLENGES OF RETHINKING SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY: A REPLY TO JONATHAN HYSLOP. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 41, SUBJECTS OF STELLENBOSCH: SNAPSHOTS OF EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF POWER, pp. 116-120
Rethinking Documentary History and South African Political Biography
South African political biography has largely reproduced a ‘biographical illusion’ by approaching political lives as characterised by an ordered sequence of acts, events and works, with individuals characterised by stability, autonomy, self-determination and rational choice. The concerns of this approach have been to construct national histories in which leaders have been made to speak as national subjects through resistance history. The document…
Power, Knowledge and the Politics of Public Pasts
This article examines the ways in which the disciplines of history and archaeology in South Africa relate and how they have negotiated the public as part of their disciplinary practices of producing knowledge about the past that is accessible. It presents an analysis of questions of knowledge and power, and the different ways that scholars working broadly as 'historians' or 'archaeologists' have viewed the relationship between expertise and 'comm…
Visualizing the game
Fields of Play’
This article examines the distinctive features of the District Six Museum’s memory work on the history and heritage of apartheid forced removals in Cape Town, and shows how these approaches were applied in the museum to a project through which a new exhibition on the history of football in Cape Town was created. Since its inception in December 1994, the District Six Museum has become one of the most prominent examples of new museums whose methods…
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa
Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artifacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa turned into a perfect example of the visual dimensions of football. Stadiums were built and marketed as tourist attractions, …
Museums in a Global World
The following conversation took place during the Critical Heritage Studies conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 6 June 2012. The initial idea and topic was suggested by Kylie Message, the session was chaired by Conal McCarthy, and the recording was transcribed by Jennifer Walklate and edited by Conal McCarthy and Jennifer Walklate
Toward a critical heritage studies
Anna Karlström’s article made me think of \nthe inaugural conference of the International \nAssociation of Critical Heritage Studies held in \nGothenburg in June 2012. At the conference, \nheritage scholars and graduate students \ngathered from around the world—though \nmainly from Britain, Australia, and Sweden— \nto discuss key debates in the rapidly \ndeveloping, wide-ranging field of heritage. \nThe location, the University of Gothenburg, \nw…
Exhibit Reviews
Fetish Modernity (Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm) Remaking an Ethnographic Museum in Cologne (The New Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum—Cultures of the World) The George W. Bush Presidential Center (Dallas, Texas) Moving on Asia: Towards a New Art Network 2004–2013 (Gallery LOOP, Seoul, and City Gallery Wellington) L'Art Nouveau: La Révolution Décorative and Tamara de Lempicka (La Reine de l'Art Déco, Pinacothèque de Paris) Staatliches Museum Ägyptisc…
Human Remains, the Disciplines of the Dead, and the South African Memorial Complex
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Politics of Heritage in Africa
Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disp…
Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
This special issue on the ‘South African empire’ evolved from the South African empire research project, the origins of which lie in the discomfort of a number of historians of Namibia with dominan
Re-storing the Skeletons of Empire
This article argues that empire should be understood not only as geography or network, but also as extractive, hierarchical and stratified relations of knowledge, where the modern museum emerged as one of its key institutions and primary sites. The focus of this examination of empire as epistemology is the process of the return of the remains of Klaas and Trooi Pienaar to South Africa for reburial in 2012, seen in relation to other return process…
Unsettled History
Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 to South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup ®. Conventionally represented as a time of rectifying the silences and distortions of settler history through inclusion and recovery, the focus here instead is on the shifts in processes and locations of historicizing and the unsettled sta…
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