Basu, Paul and De Jong, Ferdinand (2016) 'Utopian Archives, Decolonial Affordances: Introduction to Special Issue.' Social Anthropology, 24 (1). pp. 5-19.
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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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | archives, decolonisation, memory, affordances, postcolonial futures |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of Anthropology and Sociology |
| ISSN: | 09640282 |
| Copyright Statement: | © 2016 The Authors. Social Anthropology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Social Anthropologists. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12281 |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2016 09:04 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/21821 |
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