The Apartheid Archive Project, the Psychosocial and Political Praxis

Abstract

To do justice to the variety of perspectives on the apartheid narratives collected by the project, we have opted to divide the book into four sections. Of course, this by no means exhausts all the possible avenues of enquiry, or the complexity of the issues posed by the stories and narratives themselves, but it does foreground four crucial topic areas that best represent the research work of the project thus far. The chapters contained in the volume were selected by the editors from a range of conference presentations, previously published journal articles and works in progress. The four topic areas offer a coherence to the volume that represents salient discussions and debates on theory, methodology, blackness, whiteness, gender and sexuality within the project thus far. This is not to say that other thematic strands have not emerged within the project's work, but the scope of this volume does not permit an exhaustive accounting of the project's full range of analytic endeavours. We hope that the pragmatics of psychosocial analysis as tackled here, along with the novel opportunities offered by innovative analytical strategies, will prove instructive to other psychosocial researchers and practitioners in the fields of social marginality, oppression and social trauma, amongst others. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)