Leslie Witz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 83278 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Leslie Witz |
| PRENOMES | Leslie |
| SOBRENOME | Witz |
| ASSINATURA | WITZ L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0502-1463 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Museum Times
Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. From the renowned Robben Island Museum to the almost unknown Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, the author demonstrates how…
Commemoration | Centenary
This discussion originally took place as part of the Sounding the Land exhibition curated by Simon Gush, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, Craig Paterson and Gary Minkley at the virtual National Arts Festival that ran from 25 June 5 July 2020. Sounding the Land (https://soundingtheland.co.za/) intended to use the bicentennial of the so called 1820 settlers' arrival as a critical platform from which to discuss the legacies of the settler colonial project…
The Arcades ’ affinities
This article joins the excursion in which the ‘Secret Affinities’ workshop organizers took participants on through the city of Johannesburg in March 2017 as the precursor to its deliberations. Given the intent of the workshop to follow the ‘endeavour’ of Walter Benjamin’s construction of a world of ‘secret affinities’ ‘in unpredictable, undisciplined ways’ this tour with its predetermined sites and routes seemed to be an anomaly. My intent on tak…
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…
Red Assembly
Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana and Simon Gush’s Red. Two artworks, one from the North (Venice), one from the South (East London).Figure 1. Simon Gush, Red, 2014. Installation view, Ann Bryant Gal
Surveying Africa in World History
This is part 2 of a review article of a series of books on African history. They are mostly designed as textbooks or can be used as such in courses. Some signal the development of learning historical skills as integral to understanding African pasts while balancing this with an attempt to present an analytical narrative. I examine the different ways that they open up debates in African history through this emphasis on skill development. They also…
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…
Hunting for Museums
This article begins on the floor of the laboratory of the Kaffrarian Museum in King William's Town, South Africa, in mid January 1949, where the body of the museum director, Guy Chester Shortridge, has just been found. The inquest found that he had died from ‘strychnine poisoning, self-administered’. Strychine was used in the museum as an insecticide and for the preservation of animal specimens. Many of these specimens had been obtained from the …
Hostels, homes, museum
The history of Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, opened in 1998. Lwandle, about 40 km from Cape Town, was established in the 1950s by the apartheid state as a “native location” to house temporary migrant labor. "Murray and Witz's discussions of architectural restoration, memory and oral history effortlessly incorporate academic debates that have raged for several decades. Through meticulous documentation they show the steps taken to restore a migran…
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
Camp Lwandle
In southern African narratives of migrant labour, hostels and compounds are represented as typical examples of colonial and apartheid planning. Visual and spatial comparisons are consistently made between the regulatory power of hostels and those of concentration camps. Several of these sites of violence and repression are today being reconfigured as sites of conscience, their artefactual presence on the landscape being constructed as places of r…
Revisualising township tourism in the Western Cape
This article uses a case study of the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, 40 km outside of Cape Town, to discuss how places and their histories come to be reconstituted in and along tourist routes. It argues that responsible tourism cannot merely be analysed through a hosts/guests approach that relies upon investigating impacts. This formulation does not take into account the fundamental ways that tourism is always about appropriation, systems of know…
A Nineteenth Century Mail Coach, a Fifteenth Century Sailing Ship and a Bus Crash
This article was written originally as thought-piece in 2010 for the University of the Western Cape's Transport Museum Preparatory Project. Funded by the social development and corporate responsibility arm of Hosken Consolidated Investment (HCI), the company that owns Golden Arrow Bus Services, the idea behind the project was to propose a process that could lead towards the development of a museum of bus transport in Cape Town. By drawing on an a…
Repackaging the past for South African tourism
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…
Apartheid's Festival
Reaping the whirlwind
In 1988 Reader&s;s Digest pulled off what is probably the publishing coup of the decade in South Africa. Responding to the storm of popular opposition to traditional South African history that blew up in the 1980s, it produced a book that took up the challenge: The Illustrated History of South Africa: the real story . It sold over 85,000 copies within six months of publication and Reader&s;s Digest has battled to keep up &s;with the demand for th…
Apartheid's Festival
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…
Africa, Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century at a South African University in 1998
Research Article| January 01 2000 Africa, Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century at a South African University in 1998 Leslie Witz; Leslie Witz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Carohn Cornell Carohn Cornell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (76): 223–231. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2000-76-223 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…
No End of a [HistoryJ Lesson
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…
Becoming a Writer of History
(1995). Becoming a Writer of History: The Expressive Tradition and Academic Historical Discourse at the University of the Western Cape. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 101-118
It is my right to participate in the subject
(1994). “It is my right to participate in the subject”: Contesting Histories in the First Year Lecture Room. Social Dynamics: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 49-74
N Fees Vir Die Oog’
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…
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…
It is my right to participate in the subject
(1994). “It is my right to participate in the subject”: Contesting Histories in the First Year Lecture Room. Social Dynamics: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 49-74
Reaping the Whirlwind
The Dog, the Rabbit and the Reluctant Historians
Revisualising township tourism in the Western Cape
This article uses a case study of the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, 40 km outside of Cape Town, to discuss how places and their histories come to be reconstituted in and along tourist routes. It argues that responsible tourism cannot merely be analysed through a hosts/guests approach that relies upon investigating impacts. This formulation does not take into account the fundamental ways that tourism is always about appropriation, systems of know…
Red Assembly
Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana and Simon Gush’s Red. Two artworks, one from the North (Venice), one from the South (East London).Figure 1. Simon Gush, Red, 2014. Installation view, Ann Bryant Gal
Surveying Africa in World History
This is part 2 of a review article of a series of books on African history. They are mostly designed as textbooks or can be used as such in courses. Some signal the development of learning historical skills as integral to understanding African pasts while balancing this with an attempt to present an analytical narrative. I examine the different ways that they open up debates in African history through this emphasis on skill development. They also…
Hunting for Museums
This article begins on the floor of the laboratory of the Kaffrarian Museum in King William's Town, South Africa, in mid January 1949, where the body of the museum director, Guy Chester Shortridge, has just been found. The inquest found that he had died from ‘strychnine poisoning, self-administered’. Strychine was used in the museum as an insecticide and for the preservation of animal specimens. Many of these specimens had been obtained from the …
A Nineteenth Century Mail Coach, a Fifteenth Century Sailing Ship and a Bus Crash
This article was written originally as thought-piece in 2010 for the University of the Western Cape's Transport Museum Preparatory Project. Funded by the social development and corporate responsibility arm of Hosken Consolidated Investment (HCI), the company that owns Golden Arrow Bus Services, the idea behind the project was to propose a process that could lead towards the development of a museum of bus transport in Cape Town. By drawing on an a…
No End of a [HistoryJ Lesson
Separation for unity
Up until its demise in December 1984, the Garment Workers’ Union (GWU)proclaimed that it had always been committed to the principle of non‐racialism. This paper examines the validity of this assertion for the period 1928 ‐1936 when the workforce in the clothing industry in the Transvaal mainly comprised of white Afrikaner women and African men. It is argued that the GWU did not give the African workers in the clothing industry full support. Moreo…
Separation for unity
Up until its demise in December 1984, the Garment Workers’ Union (GWU)proclaimed that it had always been committed to the principle of non‐racialism. This paper examines the validity of this assertion for the period 1928 ‐1936 when the workforce in the clothing industry in the Transvaal mainly comprised of white Afrikaner women and African men. It is argued that the GWU did not give the African workers in the clothing industry full support. Moreo…
The Write Your Own History Project
Research Article| May 01 1990 The Write Your Own History Project Leslie Witz Leslie Witz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 377–387. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-377 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Leslie Witz; The Write Your Own History Project. Radical History Review 1 May 1990; 1990 (46-47): 377–387. doi: https://doi.org/…
Reaping the Whirlwind
The Dog, the Rabbit and the Reluctant Historians
N Fees Vir Die Oog’
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…
Threads of Solidarity
It is my right to participate in the subject
(1994). “It is my right to participate in the subject”: Contesting Histories in the First Year Lecture Room. Social Dynamics: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 49-74
Becoming a Writer of History
(1995). Becoming a Writer of History: The Expressive Tradition and Academic Historical Discourse at the University of the Western Cape. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 101-118
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
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…
Africa, Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century at a South African University in 1998
Research Article| January 01 2000 Africa, Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century at a South African University in 1998 Leslie Witz; Leslie Witz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Carohn Cornell Carohn Cornell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (76): 223–231. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2000-76-223 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…
Reaping the whirlwind
In 1988 Reader&s;s Digest pulled off what is probably the publishing coup of the decade in South Africa. Responding to the storm of popular opposition to traditional South African history that blew up in the 1980s, it produced a book that took up the challenge: The Illustrated History of South Africa: the real story . It sold over 85,000 copies within six months of publication and Reader&s;s Digest has battled to keep up &s;with the demand for th…
Apartheid's Festival
Apartheid's Festival
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
Revisualising township tourism in the Western Cape
This article uses a case study of the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, 40 km outside of Cape Town, to discuss how places and their histories come to be reconstituted in and along tourist routes. It argues that responsible tourism cannot merely be analysed through a hosts/guests approach that relies upon investigating impacts. This formulation does not take into account the fundamental ways that tourism is always about appropriation, systems of know…
A Nineteenth Century Mail Coach, a Fifteenth Century Sailing Ship and a Bus Crash
This article was written originally as thought-piece in 2010 for the University of the Western Cape's Transport Museum Preparatory Project. Funded by the social development and corporate responsibility arm of Hosken Consolidated Investment (HCI), the company that owns Golden Arrow Bus Services, the idea behind the project was to propose a process that could lead towards the development of a museum of bus transport in Cape Town. By drawing on an a…
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
Camp Lwandle
In southern African narratives of migrant labour, hostels and compounds are represented as typical examples of colonial and apartheid planning. Visual and spatial comparisons are consistently made between the regulatory power of hostels and those of concentration camps. Several of these sites of violence and repression are today being reconfigured as sites of conscience, their artefactual presence on the landscape being constructed as places of r…
Hostels, homes, museum
The history of Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, opened in 1998. Lwandle, about 40 km from Cape Town, was established in the 1950s by the apartheid state as a “native location” to house temporary migrant labor. "Murray and Witz's discussions of architectural restoration, memory and oral history effortlessly incorporate academic debates that have raged for several decades. Through meticulous documentation they show the steps taken to restore a migran…
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…
Hunting for Museums
This article begins on the floor of the laboratory of the Kaffrarian Museum in King William's Town, South Africa, in mid January 1949, where the body of the museum director, Guy Chester Shortridge, has just been found. The inquest found that he had died from ‘strychnine poisoning, self-administered’. Strychine was used in the museum as an insecticide and for the preservation of animal specimens. Many of these specimens had been obtained from the …
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