Truscott, R. (2022) Frontier Mail: The Liberal Subject and the Post Office in South African History. Kronos, 47 (1). pp. 11-35. ISSN 0259-0190
Abstract
This essay brings postal history and postcolonial theory into an encounter, considering the history of the Post Office in South Africa, stretching from its emergence under Dutch rule at the Cape. Turning to postal history reread under the sway of postcolonial theory may enable a rethinking of apartheid, what apartheid carried from the systems of government and administration that preceded it, and though this remains at the edge of the essay, largely undeveloped but certainly there what, in turn, of apartheid has been carried into post-apartheid South Africa. The essay forms part of an ongoing project that considers the relation between social institutions and subjectivity.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-SA 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | institution, subjectivity, postal history, postcolonial, apartheid, race, liberalism, discipline, biopolitics, frontier, reason, passions |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2024 15:57 |
Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2024 15:57 |
Published Version: | https://epubs.ac.za/index.php/kronos/article/view/... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Academy of Science of South Africa |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:220015 |