A Museum of Hope

Shearing, Clifford; Kempa, Michael

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A Museum of Hope

Date

2004

Authors

Shearing, Clifford

Kempa, Michael

Abstract

This article explores hope as a technology of collective governance through an exploration of the work that is being done to celebrate and promote a hope for a New South Africa at the Robben Island Museum - former prison to the political opponents of apartheid that is situated on a small island off the coast at Cape Town.