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Islands of Work at the Rough Edge of the World; and: Archiving Culture and Nature: Harlan I. Smith’s Ethnographic Record of the Pacific Slope

Two book-length studies will be completed.

Placeholder image Dianne Newell

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KROTOA IS PRESENT: A 17th Century story that refuses to die

The story of Krotoa !Goa /gõas

Sylvia Vollenhoven Sylvia Vollenhoven

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Queer Transitions: Biographical Space and Black Visuality in the Remains of Apartheid

A quarter century into democratic South Africa, it is a truism that Apartheid’s forms remain present in various ways.

Sharad Chari Sharad Chari

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Documentary, Desire, Description: South Africa’s ‘Second World War’ and the mediation/materialisation of ‘witness’

This project centres on South Africa’s first illustrated magazine Libertas (1940 -1946) a vehicle of anti-Fascist advocacy and propaganda for pro-Allied engagement in WW2.

Tamar Garb Tamar Garb

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School Photos in Liquid Time

Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer. 2020. School Photos in Liquid Time. University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029574...

Marianne Hirsch Marianne Hirsch Leo Spitzer Leo Spitzer
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