رویاهای رنگین جزیرهٔ رابن: شکل‌گیری نخستین نهاد میراث ملی دموکراتیک آفریقای جنوبی

Epigraph Contents Preface Introduction Acronyms Editors’ note Prologue PART ONE: DRAFT ONE OF THE MAKING OF THE ROBBEN ISLAND MUSEUM 1. The liberation struggle as incubator for RIM 2. UWC’s Mayibuye Centre: The conceptual base for RIM 3. Lobbying and planning: A new South African museums and heritage sector, 1990–1994 4. Defining the vision: ‘The triumph of the human spirit’ 5. The mandate: Cabinet’s decision on the future of the island, 1994–1996 6. Throwing open the prison doors, 1 January 1997 7. Official launch of RIM by Nelson Mandela, 24 September 1997 8. Consolidation, commemoration, celebration: On the way to UNESCO World Heritage Site status, 1998–2000 9. Putting in place building blocks for the future 10. A dirty tricks campaign unfolds, 2001 11. The pressure on RIM intensifies 12. The rupture, July 2002 13. Downward spiral of an institution and its vision PART TWO: FOUNDATIONS FOR PERMANENCY 14. Narrative design and memory-making as healing modality: The ethos of early RIM education and public programming 15. Creating a new generation of heritage and museum leaders: The inception of the Robben Island Training Programme 16. From Mayibuye Centre to the UWC/Robben Island Mayibuye Archives 17. Signature in the city: Building the Nelson Mandela Gateway Building 18. Preparing for South Africa’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site 19. Challenges in preventative conservation: Artefacts as a means of triggering memory and a process of healing 20. Conservation management planning and Robben Island’s layered history 21. Conserving the island’s environment 22. An ex‑political prisoner’s memories of living and working on Robben Island 23. Building a new community on the island: The Robben Island Village Association 24. Making the intangible tangible: The first tour guides and the social memory of Robben Island 25. Appeasing the ancestors: Art and culture as a way of giving meaning to RIM PART THREE: EXHIBITIONS AND MEMORY‑MAKING PROCESS IN A SACRED SPACE 26. Memories of working in RIM’s first Exhibitions Unit, 1999–2008 27. Participation in progress: The story of Robben Island Museum’s Ex‑Political Prisoner reference groups 28. Research Unit experiences in memorialising and archiving Robben Island prisoner memories through oral history 29. Journey to Sithebe village: In search of the first political prisoners in Robben Island Maximum Security Prison 30. Restoring dignity to the 12 Robben Island prisoners buried as paupers in Stikland Cemetery by the apartheid regime 31. The making and demise of the Nelson Mandela Gateway exhibition, 2001–2010 PART FOUR: VOICES AND DEBATES FROM WITHIN 32. The saint of the struggle: RIM and the debate about deconstructing the Mandela myth 33. Pan Africanist and Black Consciousness perspectives: Beneath the surface of the Robben Island Museum images 34. The role of Robben Island Museum in the transformation of South Africa’s cultural landscape after apartheid 35. See the seagulls fly: Twenty years on – a message to my daughter PART FIVE: CURIOUS COINCIDENCES 36. Fast forward from RIM rupture to state capture 37. Mr K and the replica of his cell Appendix Endnotes Select bibliography About the contributors Index Following the birth of democracy in South Africa in 1994, Robben Island, once a symbol of pain, injustice, and closed spaces, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a global symbol of the commitment to democracy, tolerance, and human dignity. In the years that followed, however, conflict marred the high hopes for this cherished location. Robben Island Rainbow Dreams offers a behind-the-scenes account of the creation of the Robben Island Museum and the debate over democratic South Africa's first national heritage institution. Robben Island is a vitl part of South Africa's collective heritage. This account is a timely reminder that democracy depends on an informed and vigilant citizenry to ensure the dream of a collective future. -- adapted from back cover