TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carneson,Ruth
AU  - Cheminais,Gaby
AU  - Corsane,Gerard
AU  - Damon,Llewellyn
AU  - Damon,Rabia
AU  - Davis,Lionel
AU  - Davis,Shaun
AU  - Deacon,Harriet
AU  - Dondolo,Luvuyo Mthimkhulu
AU  - Forbes,Ashley
AU  - Fullard,Madeleine
AU  - Grange,Lucien le
AU  - Josias,Anthea
AU  - Maart,Lynette
AU  - Mafune,Irene
AU  - Makhalemele,Oupa
AU  - Mandela,Nelson
AU  - Meintjes,Roger
AU  - Mitchell,Vanessa
AU  - Mpumlwana,Khwezi ka
AU  - Odendaal,André
AU  - Pastor,Juanita
AU  - Prins-Solani,Deirdre
AU  - Ramoupi,Lekgotla laga
AU  - Ramoupi,Neo Lekgotla laga
AU  - Shezi,Phumlani Grant
AU  - Smallberg,Mavis
AU  - Solani,Noel
AU  - Tongo-Cetywayo,Nolubabalo
AU  - laga Ramoupi,Neo Lekgotla
TI  - Robben Island Rainbow Dreams: The Making of Democratic South Africa’s First National Heritage Institution 
SN  - 9781928246541
AV  - DT2073 
U1  - 968.73 23/eng/20220429eng
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Epigraph --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Acronyms --; Editors’ note --; Prologue --; PART ONE: DRAFT ONE OF THE MAKING OF THE ROBBEN ISLAND MUSEUM --; 1. The liberation struggle as incubator for RIM --; 2. UWC’s Mayibuye Centre: The conceptual base for RIM --; 3. Lobbying and planning: A new South African museums and heritage sector, 1990–1994 --; 4. Defining the vision: ‘The triumph of the human spirit’ --; 5. The mandate: Cabinet’s decision on the future of the island, 1994–1996 --; 6. Throwing open the prison doors, 1 January 1997 --; 7. Official launch of RIM by Nelson Mandela, 24 September 1997 --; 8. Consolidation, commemoration, celebration: On the way to UNESCO World Heritage Site status, 1998–2000 --; 9. Putting in place building blocks for the future --; 10. A dirty tricks campaign unfolds, 2001 --; 11. The pressure on RIM intensifies --; 12. The rupture, July 2002 --; 13. Downward spiral of an institution and its vision --; PART TWO: FOUNDATIONS FOR PERMANENCY --; 14. Narrative design and memory-making as healing modality: The ethos of early RIM education and public programming --; 15. Creating a new generation of heritage and museum leaders: The inception of the Robben Island Training Programme --; 16. From Mayibuye Centre to the UWC/Robben Island Mayibuye Archives --; 17. Signature in the city: Building the Nelson Mandela Gateway Building --; 18. Preparing for South Africa’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site --; 19. Challenges in preventative conservation: Artefacts as a means of triggering memory and a process of healing --; 20. Conservation management planning and Robben Island’s layered history --; 21. Conserving the island’s environment --; 22. An ex-political prisoner’s memories of living and working on Robben Island --; 23. Building a new community on the island: The Robben Island Village Association --; 24. Making the intangible tangible: The first tour guides and the social memory of Robben Island --; 25. Appeasing the ancestors: Art and culture as a way of giving meaning to RIM --; PART THREE: EXHIBITIONS AND MEMORY-MAKING PROCESS IN A SACRED SPACE --; 26. Memories of working in RIM’s first Exhibitions Unit, 1999–2008 --; 27. Participation in progress: The story of Robben Island Museum’s Ex-Political Prisoner reference groups --; 28. Research Unit experiences in memorialising and archiving Robben Island prisoner memories through oral history --; 29. Journey to Sithebe village: In search of the first political prisoners in Robben Island Maximum Security Prison --; 30. Restoring dignity to the 12 Robben Island prisoners buried as paupers in Stikland Cemetery by the apartheid regime --; 31. The making and demise of the Nelson Mandela Gateway exhibition, 2001–2010 --; PART FOUR: VOICES AND DEBATES FROM WITHIN --; 32. The saint of the struggle: RIM and the debate about deconstructing the Mandela myth --; 33. Pan Africanist and Black Consciousness perspectives: Beneath the surface of the Robben Island Museum images --; 34. The role of Robben Island Museum in the transformation of South Africa’s cultural landscape after apartheid --; 35. See the seagulls fly: Twenty years on – a message to my daughter --; PART FIVE: CURIOUS COINCIDENCES --; 36. Fast forward from RIM rupture to state capture --; 37. Mr K and the replica of his cell --; Appendix --; Endnotes --; Select bibliography --; About the contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A behind-the-scenes account of the creation of the Robben Island Museum and the debates over democratic South Africa’s first national heritage institution
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781928246541
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781928246541
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781928246541/original
ER  -