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ToolsBasu, Paul and De Jong, Ferdinand (2016) Utopian archives, decolonial affordances:Introduction to special issue. Social Anthropology, 24 (1). pp. 5-19. ISSN 0964-0282
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Abstract
Colonial archives constituted a technology that enabled the collection, storage, ordering, retrieval and exchange of knowledge as an instrument of colonial governance. It is not surprising that when such archives were inherited by independent nation-states they were not given the authority previously granted them and have often been neglected. What, then, is the future of colonial archives in postcolonial nations? How should we rethink these archives in relation to decolonial futures? This essay introduces a collection of articles that explore the repertoires of action latent in archives and how colonial archives are being reconfigured to imagine decolonial futures. Les archives coloniales ont constitué une technologie qui a permis la collecte, le stockage, la commande, la récupération et l'échange de connaissances comme un instrument de gouvernance coloniale. Il n'est pas surprenant que lorsque ces archives ont été héritées par des nations indépendants, ils n'ont pas recu l'autorité précédemment accordé et ont souvent été négligés. Quel est donc l'avenir des archives coloniales dans les nations postcoloniales? Comment devrions-nous repenser ces archives par rapport au futur décolonial? Cet essai présente une collection d'articles qui explorent les répertoires d'action latente dans les archives et questionne comment les archives coloniales sont en cours de reconfigurer l'imagination pour des futures décoloniales.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | archives,decolonisation,memory,affordances,decolonial futures |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Centre for African Art and Archaeology Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Art History and World Art Studies |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Feb 2016 17:00 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Aug 2023 18:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57268 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1469-8676.12281 |
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