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Robben Island Rainbow Dreams : The Making of Democratic South Africa’s First National Heritage Institution / ed. by André Odendaal, Noel Solani, Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (415 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781928246541
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 968.73 23/eng/20220429eng
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  • DT2073
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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