Decolonising the archives: languages as enablers and barriers to accessing public archives in South Africa

Schellnack-Kelly, Isabel

dc.contributor.author	Schellnack-Kelly, Isabel
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-14T12:47:02Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-14T12:47:02Z
dc.date.issued	2020-09-27
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26955
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1815064
dc.description	Archives and Manuscripts	en
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dc.description.abstract	Under a democratic dispensation in South Africa, which recognises eleven official languages, language is still used to divide and segregate people and different cultures. The examples of how languages have divided South Africa from colonial times to the current dispensation are evident in archival collections housed by the country’s public archives services. A qualitative study was undertaken to identify all the languages of the different archival collections held by the public archives services in South Africa. Utilising a postmodernist ontology, this paper investigates the challenges pertaining to the large volumes of collections where access is restricted due to language barriers with limited assistance to provide translation services.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis	en
dc.subject	languages, decolonisation, oral history, linguistic challenges, postmodernism	en
dc.title	Decolonising the archives: languages as enablers and barriers to accessing public archives in South Africa	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.description.department	Information Science	en
dc.description.embargo	The full-text of this article is accessible on the official website of the publisher via the doi link at the top of this record.