Utopian archives, decolonial affordances Introduction to special issue

in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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Paul Basu University of East Anglia paul.basu@soas.ac.uk

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Ferdinand De Jong University of London F.Jong@uea.ac.uk

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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.

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