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The 'haunting' and the 'haunted' : whiteness, orthography and the (post)-Apartheid condition in Namibia
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dc.contributor.author | Fumanti, Mattia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-28T20:30:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-06-28T20:30:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06-03 | |
dc.identifier | 274342131 | |
dc.identifier | 23daaf2f-0fb9-41df-af3e-92f3f1508364 | |
dc.identifier | 000657593300001 | |
dc.identifier | 85107469318 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Fumanti , M 2021 , ' The 'haunting' and the 'haunted' : whiteness, orthography and the (post)-Apartheid condition in Namibia ' , History and Anthropology , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2021.1933966 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0275-7206 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-4940-7322/work/96489454 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/23432 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper I contend that a project of recovering one's ethnographic archive can engender not only a process of reflexivity, including on one's positionality, but also offer a heuristic device for exploring wider ethnographic issues. In starting with a reflection on my position as a white male researcher in Namibia, I focus my analysis to a broader exploration of whiteness in Namibia, and the enduring presence of apartheid in the (post)-apartheid era. In building on Tina Campt's haptic, I confront my own nostalgia and hauntings which emerged during the course of retrieving the orphaned ethnographic archive. In the process, I made space for making sense of the nostalgia and hauntings of other whites in Namibia, and more broadly, for exploring the relationship between whiteness and the (post)-apartheid condition. Further, I argue that a new vocabulary and orthography are needed for engaging with the (post)-apartheid condition. In traversing it as a series of puncta, I explore the complex interrelationship between whiteness’ hauntings – its historical claims on people, space and time – and the ways in which apartheid's traces continue to haunt whiteness in the (post)-apartheid period. Haunting and haunted, I argued that white people's experiences, narratives and perceptions in Namibia are characterized by historical inequalities and privilege, as well as a sense of dislocation and dispossession. Ultimately, it is my belief that, as noted earlier, (post)-apartheid must be viewed as a condition that does not yet fully exist, but can only be desired, being understood as deferred. | |
dc.format.extent | 24 | |
dc.format.extent | 2174762 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | History and Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | Namibia | en |
dc.subject | Postapartheid | en |
dc.subject | Whiteness | en |
dc.subject | Archive | en |
dc.subject | Auto-ethnography | en |
dc.subject | GN Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GN | en |
dc.title | The 'haunting' and the 'haunted' : whiteness, orthography and the (post)-Apartheid condition in Namibia | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Social Anthropology | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02757206.2021.1933966 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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