Kronos: Southern African Histories 44
The CHR is excited to announce Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation, a special issue of Kronos: Southern African Histories. This journal issue is the product of an ongoing partnership between the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto and the Centre for Humanities Research. It also emerges out of the 2018 African Critical Inquiry Programme Workshop part of a longstanding partnership between Emory University and the CHR. It is edited by Nicky Rousseau, Riedwaan Moosage and Ciraj Rassool, and features work from colleagues both at UWC and at partner institutions.
Kronos features innovative historical and inter-disciplinary scholarship about southern Africa and beyond. Through its emphasis on thematic and Special Issues, it highlights new debates and research directions in the humanities. Kronos combines a rigorous commitment to high quality scholarship with a longstanding interest in integrating visual and textual sources. It is an accredited open access journal published annually by the Department of History and the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.
Contents page
Editorial Note
Missing and Missed: Rehumanisation, the Nation and Missing-ness
- Nicky Rousseau, Riedwaan Moosage and Ciraj Rassool
Middle Passage: In the Absence of Detail, Presenting and Representing a Historical Void
- Rinaldo Walcott
Authorised Histories: Human Remains and the Economies of Credibility in the Science of Race
- Ricardo Roque
Getting the dead to tell me what happened: Justice, Prosopopoeia, and Forensic Afterlives
- Thomas Keenan
Bureaucratically Missing: Capital Punishment, Exhumations, and the Afterlives of State Documents and Photographs
- Bianca van Laun
The Future of the Witness: Nature, Race and More-than-Human Environmental Publics
- Shela Sheikh
The missing are not dead yet: Efraim Kamati Kapolo and the Impossibility of Disappearing Without a Trace
- Vilho Shigwedha
Where did you cry? Crafting Categories, Narratives, and Affect through Exhibit Design
- Corinne Kratz
Book Reviews
Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Anstett, (eds), Human Remains in Society: Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass- Violence
- Sophie Schasiepen
