{"product_id":"9781928246299","title":"Robben Island Rainbow Dreams","description":"\"Presents one of the few important and critical reflections on the politics of memorialization after the end of apartheid in South Africa.\" --Ulf Engel, Connections\n\n Following the birth of democracy in South Africa in 1994, Robben Island, once a symbol of pain, injustice, and closed spaces, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a global symbol of the commitment to democracy, tolerance, and human dignity. In the years that followed, however, conflict marred the high hopes for this cherished location. Robben Island Rainbow Dreamsoffers a behind-the-scenes account of the creation of the Robben Island Museum and the debate over democratic South Africa''s first national heritage institution. \n CONTENTS: • Prologue--A. Odendaal.\n • DRAFT ONE OF THE MAKING OF THE ROBBEN ISLAND MUSEUM.\n • The Liberation Struggle as Incubator for RIM--A. Odendaal.\n • UWC''s Mayibuye Centre: The Conceptual Base for RIM--A. Odendaal.\n • Lobbying and Planning: A New South African Museums and Heritage Sector, 1990-1994--A. Odendaal.\n • Defining the Vision: \"The Triumph of the Human Spirit\"--Address by Ahmed Kathrada.\n • The Mandate: Cabinet''s Decision on the Future of the Island, 1994-1996--A. Odendaal.\n • Throwing Open the Prison Doors, 1 January 1997--A. Odendaal.\n • Official Launch of RIM, 24 September 1997--Address by Nelson Mandela.\n • Consolidation, Commemoration, Celebration: On the Way to UNESCO World Heritage Site Status, 1998-2000--A. Odendaal.\n • Putting in Place Building Blocks for the Future--A. Odendaal.\n • A Dirty Tricks Campaign Unfolds, 2001--A. Odendaal et al.\n • The Pressure on RIM Intensifies--A. Odendaal.\n • The Rupture, July 2002--A. Odendaal.\n • Downward Spiral of an Institution and Its Vision--A. Odendaal.\n • FOUNDATIONS FOR PERMANENCY.\n • Narrative Design and Memory-Making as Healing Modality: The Ethos of Early RIM Education and Public Programming--D. Prins-Solani.\n • Creating a New Generation of Heritage and Museum Leaders: The Inception of the Robben Island Training Programme--K.k. Mpumlwana and G. Corsane.\n • From Mayibuye Centre to the UWC\/Robben Island Mayibuye Archives--A. Josias.\n • Signature in the City: Building the Nelson Mandela Gateway Building--L. Le Grange.\n • Preparing for South Africa''s First UNESCO World Heritage Site--J. Pastor.\n • Challenges in Preventative Conservation: Artifacts as a Means of Triggering Memory and a Process of Healing--I. Mafune.\n • Conservation Management Planning and Robben Island''s Layered History--H. Deacon.\n • Conserving the Island''s Environment--S. Davis.\n • An Ex-Political Prisoner''s Memories of Living and Working on Robben Island--L. Davis.\n • Building a New Community on the Island: The Robben Island Village Association--L. Damon and R. Damon.\n • Making the Intangible Tangible: The First Tour Guides and the Social Memory of Robben Island--V. Mitchell.\n • Appeasing the Ancestors: Art and Culture as a Way of Giving Meaning to RIM--R. Carneson.\n • EXHIBITIONS AND MEMORY-MAKING PROCESS IN A SACRED SPACE.\n • Memories of Working in RIM''s First Exhibitions Unit, 1999-2008--G. Cheminais.\n • Participation in Progress: The Story of Robben Island''s Ex-Political Prisoner Reference Groups--R. Meintjes et al.\n • Research Unit Experiences in Memorializing and Archiving Robben Island Prisoner Memories Through Oral History--N. Solani and O. Makhalemele.\n • Journey to Sithebe Village: In Search of the First Political Prisoners in Robben Island Maximum Security Prison--N.L.l. Ramoupi et al.\n • Restoring Dignity to the 12 Robben Island Prisoners Buried as Paupers in Stikland Cemetery by the Apartheid Regine--N. Tongo-Cetywayo and M. Fullard.\n • The Making and Demise of the Nelson Mandela Gateway Exhibition, 2001-2010--M. Smallberg.\n • VOICES AND DEBATES FROM WITHIN.\n • The Saint of the Struggle: RIM and the Debate About Deconstructing the Mandela Myth--N. Solani.\n • Pan Africanist and Black Consciousness Perspectives: Beneath the Surface of the Robben Island Museum Images--L.M. Dondolo.\n • The Role of the Robben Island Museum in the Transformation of South Africa''s Cultural Landscape--K. ka Mpumlwana and N.L.I. Ramoupi.\n • See the Seagulls Fly: A Message to My Daughter--A. Forbes.\n • CURIOUS COINCIDENCES.\n • Fast Forward from RIM Rupture to State Capture--A. Odendaal.\n • Mr. K. and the Replica of His Cell--A. Odendaal.","brand":"Booksite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39405502988403,"sku":"9781928246299","price":133.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/robben-island-rainbow-dreams-books-28371865796723.jpg?v=1637895057","url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.shop\/products\/9781928246299","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}