Digital visual activism: Photography and the re-opening of the unresolved Truth and Reconciliation Commission cases in post-apartheid South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorThomas, Kylie
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-09T15:07:40Z
dc.date.available2023-02-09T15:07:40Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-06
dc.date.updated2023-02-08T22:14:47Z
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the creation and curation of digital photographic heritage relating to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as a political project and examines the importance of the online circulation of historical photographs from private collections for public engagement with the re-opening of unresolved judicial cases concerning activists who were detained, tortured and murdered during apartheid. Focusing on the advocacy and commemoration practices relating to the re-opening of the inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol, who was killed by the South African Security Police in October 1971, the article demonstrates that the curation of photographs included on the website relating to his life and murder can be understood as digital photographic heritage in formation. The article considers how the photographs constitute a form of virtual posthumous personhood and argues that Timolâ s digital afterlife moves beyond commemoration and contributes to the ongoing struggle for justice in South Africa in the aftermath of apartheid.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationThomas, K. (2021) 'Digital visual activism: Photography and the re-opening of the unresolved Truth and Reconciliation Commission cases in post-apartheid South Africa', Photography and Culture, 14(3), pp. 297-318. doi: 10.1080/17514517.2021.1927370en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17514517.2021.1927370en
dc.identifier.eissn1751-4525
dc.identifier.endpage318en
dc.identifier.issn1751-4517
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePhotography and Cultureen
dc.identifier.startpage297en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14201
dc.identifier.volume14en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledge - Taylor & Francis Groupen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::MSCA-IF-EF-ST/838864/EU/Women, Photography and Resistance in Transnational Perspective/FEM-RESISTen
dc.rights© 2021, 2021 The Author. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectSouth Africaen
dc.subjectTruth and Reconciliation Commissionen
dc.subjectApartheiden
dc.subjectDigital resistanceen
dc.subjectPosthumous personhooden
dc.titleDigital visual activism: Photography and the re-opening of the unresolved Truth and Reconciliation Commission cases in post-apartheid South Africaen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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