led by Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, University of Glasgow
The session examines how archives are used and assembled to promote social and criminal justice. Starting with a theoretical discussion of non-representational and collaborative methodologies and their temporalities, the session challenges the privileged status of the archive in creating truth-claims about the past or now. Instead, the session looks into ways to harness archival authority to pursue fugitive justice, or difficult to envisage, let alone achieve, redress. The workshop moves away from documentary methodologies of reading, writing, and analysing historical materials to emancipatory, praxis-oriented methodologies of human rights activists, conflict archives, as well as community and indigenous production of archives.
There will be a required piece of pre-reading for this session.