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<h3><span style="font-weight: 100; font-size: 70%; background: none;">ROUSSEAU, Nicky; MOOSAGE, Riedwaan and RASSOOL, Ciraj.<span class="article-title"> Missing and Missed: Rehumanisation, the Nation and Missingness.</span><i> Kronos</i> [online]. 2018, vol.44, n.1, pp.10-32. ISSN 2309-9585. </span></h3><h3><span style="font-weight: 100; font-size: 70%; background: none;">http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2018/v44a2. </span></h3><p></p>
Critical Commentary
<p><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 232.734px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.980456);">First part of the introduction: </span></p><p><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 232.734px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.980456);">The bringing together of two lines of research that have previously been treated sepa</span><span style="left: 678.513px; top: 232.734px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif;">-</span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 255.234px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.980731);">rately – namely the missing/missed body of apartheid-era atrocities and the racialised </span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 277.734px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.94233);">body of the colonial museum – animates this issue of </span><span style="left: 484.954px; top: 277.496px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.927211);">Kronos</span><span style="left: 535.48px; top: 277.734px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.932417);">. Both the skeletons </span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 300.234px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02469);">of empire and those of apartheid-era atrocities can be thought of as racialised, and </span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 322.734px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.939797);">as ‘disappeared’ and missing. Furthermore, both areas are marked by similar lines </span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 345.234px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.945037);">of enquiry, linked to issues of identification, redress and restoration, often framed </span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 367.734px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.961721);">through notions of humanisation or rehumanisation. Consequently, these different </span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 390.234px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.963173);">‘disciplines of the dead’</span><span style="left: 240.819px; top: 391.69px; font-size: 10.6883px; font-family: serif;">1</span><span style="left: 245.949px; top: 390.234px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00833);"> have been brought into collaboration and contestation with </span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 412.734px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01776);">each other, with missingness often reproduced through the ways in which the dead </span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 435.234px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01976);">have been drawn into grand narratives of the nation and its seeming triumphs over </span><span style="left: 70.8662px; top: 457.734px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00472);">colonialism and apartheid. </span></p>