Popularising History in a Changing South Africa

Callinicos, Luli

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“…Despite what Terre Blanche and colleagues (1993, 1994) detected to be a contradiction in the meaning of history, project documentation penned in 1997 and 1998 (see Tables and ) continued to accord the Oral History Project and the associated process of narrative elicitation with a democratic and critical authority, consistent with larger national attempts of both critical psychology and the People's History Movement to cultivate social action oriented spaces for critical thinking, intellectual independence, and community agency (see Callinicos, ).…”

Section: The Eldorado Park Oral History Projectmentioning

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Oral History as an Enactment of Critical Community Psychology

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2014

Journal Community Psychology

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I describe an oral history project as an enactment of critical community psychology that was triggered by an academic and social impulse, stirred by a South African liberatory moment that legitimated recovery of marginalized voices and community knowledge as part of a process of affirming community self-identity. Oral history was positioned as a performance, a collection of historical materials, a transformative force linking the past to the present to interpret social conditions, and a generative modality for establishing community, evidence of the implicit shaping influences of Black Consciousness on enactments of psychosocial praxis at a particular South African moment. The description briefly draws attention to ambiguities arising from oppressive psychosocial scripts and the repressive authority of disciplinary power on the enactments of oral history, so as to offer a critical voice to forthcoming dialogues about how to place project materials, collected two decades ago, within the public realm.

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Section: The Eldorado Park Oral History Projectmentioning

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Oral History as an Enactment of Critical Community Psychology

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2014

Journal Community Psychology

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“…Approximately 650 individuals were believed to be buried in this large historical cemetery. The individuals were most likely migrant mine workers, as historical records show a huge influx of people arriving in Langlaagte during the gold rush [ 1 , 3 ].…”

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The Diagenetic Alterations of Historic Skeletons from the Crown Mines Cemetery, South Africa

Lander

Hosie

Brits

2023

Biology

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Human skeletons associated with early gold mining in Johannesburg, South Africa are investigated. An unmarked cemetery was buried beneath a mine dump which resulted in macroscopically stained and poorly preserved bones. Histological assessments were conducted to understand the postmortem treatment of the remains, determine the extent of bone degradation, and understand how this environment affected the bone’s microstructure. Various diagenetic alterations and the general histological index were assessed using normal and polarized light microscopy of thin anterior midshaft femur sections (n = 50). Degradation was identified in the periosteal and endosteal regions, while the intra-cortical region remained well-preserved. Bacterial bioerosion, microcracks, infiltrations, inclusions, and staining were found throughout the sample. Numerous non-Wedl micro-foci of destruction were observed, filled with exogenous material. The degradation suggested that the remains were buried in neutral soil that was subsequently covered by acidic mine dumps which resulted in a corrosive environment. Although the skeletons were poorly preserved, their histological integrity was more promising, especially the intra-cortical area. This is important for future investigations of archaeological bone, as this area can lead to more accurate descriptions of skeletal assemblages. Targeted sampling of this region could produce promising estimates of age, descriptions of pathology, and biomolecular results, which require further study.

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Some Problematical Issues in the Restructuring of History Education in South African Schools

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Grundlingh

1992

South African Historical Journal

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Popularising History in a Changing South Africa

Cited by 6 publications

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Oral History as an Enactment of Critical Community Psychology

Oral History as an Enactment of Critical Community Psychology

The Diagenetic Alterations of Historic Skeletons from the Crown Mines Cemetery, South Africa

Some Problematical Issues in the Restructuring of History Education in South African Schools

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