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Refiguring the Archive

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 The Power of the Archive and its Limits
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    Chapter 3 The Archives and the Political Imaginary
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    Chapter 4 Archive Fever
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    Chapter 5 Psychoanalysis and the Archive: Derrida’s Archive Fever
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    Chapter 6 A Shaft of Darkness: Derrida in the Archive
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    Chapter 7 Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form
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    Chapter 8 ‘Picturing the Past’ in Namibia: The Visual Archive and its Energies
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    Chapter 9 The Archival Sliver: A Perspective on the Construction of Social Memory in Archives and the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy
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    Chapter 10 The Archive, Public History and the Essential Truth: The TRC Reading the Past
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    Chapter 11 The Human Genome as Archive: Some Illustrations from the South
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    Chapter 12 ‘The History of the Past is the Trust of the Present’: Preservation and Excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa
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    Chapter 13 ‘Living by Fluidity’: Oral Histories, Material Custodies and the Politics of Archiving
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    Chapter 14 Orality and Literacy in an Electronic Era
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    Chapter 15 Holdings: Refiguring the Archive
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    Chapter 16 Literature and the Archive: The Biography of Texts
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    Chapter 17 Keeping the Self: The Novelist as (Self-)Archivist
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    Chapter 18 Electronic Record-keeping, Social Memory and Democracy
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    Chapter 19 Blackbirds and Black Butterflies
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Chapter title
The Power of the Archive and its Limits
Chapter number 2
Book title
Refiguring the Archive
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 2002
DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0570-8_2
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-103926-0, 978-9-40-100570-8
Authors

Achille Mbembe, Mbembe, Achille

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Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 217 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 43 19%
Student > Master 32 14%
Student > Bachelor 17 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 6%
Researcher 11 5%
Other 27 12%
Unknown 78 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 69 31%
Social Sciences 46 21%
Engineering 4 2%
Design 4 2%
Linguistics 3 1%
Other 20 9%
Unknown 75 34%