Rawan Samamra (Uppsala University), Dr. Jennifer Keating (University College Dublin), Dr. Helene Birkeli (University of Bergen): "Reading landscapes as archives"

Beskrivning:

This panel is part of a conference called “ReOrient: Active archives and (counter)colonial spaces,” organized by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) Cristian M. Torres Gutiérrez (University of Oslo), and Hirra Ateeq (Newham Archives, London). The event aims to open dialogue between researchers and archivists around decolonial practice and pluralist memory politics. At heart, the Conference is an exercise in methods of analysis and archiving that disrupt Orientalist thinking about human difference, particularly the idea of absolute distance between Western modernity and non-European “others.” In practical terms, this means promoting multi-cultural histories concealed in archives, developing practices that make those histories publicly accessible, and so, transforming archives into tools for reparative justice and Indigenous heritage. As decolonization is fundamentally about the return of land, this panel discusses how researchers can read physical, visual, and animate landscapes as an archive in its own right.