Forthcoming publications
Rensing, J. (accepted). On opacity and empathy: A conversation with Tuli Mekondjo on art beyond violence. In K. Shinners (Ed.), Full Stop Quarterly: Contradictions of Looking.
Journal articles
Rensing, J., & Stodel, S. (2026). Overwhelming inheritance: Family pictures in Sitaara Stodel's photo-collages. Safundi, 27(1), 145–159. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2025.2565030
Rensing, J. (2022). 'Ovizire ∙ Somgu: From where do we speak?' (2018–2020): Artistic interventions in the Namibian colonial archive. Journal of Southern African Studies, 48(1), 81–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2022.2021737
Books
Rensing, J. (2025). Troubling archives: History and memory in Namibian literature and art. transcript Verlag.
Rensing, J. (Ed.), Rizzo, L. (Ed.), & Rutishauser, W. (Ed.). (2021). Sites of contestation: Encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann Collection in the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
McBride, S.-L. (Ed.), & Rensing, J. (Ed.). (2023). Lost libraries, burnt archives. Michaelis Galleries.
Book chapters
Rensing, J. (2026). Where the birds hover—Spirits, loss, and ancestral echoes: Tuli Mekondjo. In N. Guyer (Ed.), A kind of paradise: Artistic counter-narratives to colonial-era photography (pp. 128–130). Spector Books.
Rensing, J., & Kandemiri, C. (2023). Imaginations and constructions of literary spaces: The Lower ǃGarib / Orange River region in literature. In L. Lenggenhager, M. Akawa, G. Miescher, R. Nghitevelekwa, & N. I. Sinthumule (Eds.), The Lower ǃGarib – Orange River: Pasts and presents of a Southern African border region (pp. 65–78). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839466391-004
Rensing, J. (2023). “Contested memories and spaces: Art, archives, and ambivalence in Ovizire ∙ Somgu: From where do we speak?” In S. Hegenbart (Ed.), Curating transcultural spaces: Post-colonial conflicts in museological perspectives (pp. 109–130). Bloomsbury Academic.
Rensing, J. (2023). “Lost or found: Reckoning with archival ruins.” In S.-L. McBride & J. Rensing (Eds.), Lost libraries, burnt archives (pp. 60–85). Michaelis Galleries.
Rensing, J. (2021). “Worlds apart? Biographies and interventions in the Dammann Collection.” In J. Rensing, L. Rizzo, & W. Rutishauser (Eds.), Sites of contestation: Encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann Collection in the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (pp. 29–54). Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
Magazine article
Rensing, J. (2020, November/December). „Fest auf dem Sockel: Der Schädelsammler Alexander Ecker wird in Freiburg noch immer geehrt.“ iz3w: Informationszentrum Dritte Welt, 381, 14–16.
Podcast Interview:
New Books Network, hosted by Jen Hoyer. Conversation on: “Troubling Archives. History and Memory in Namibian Literature and Art” 2025.