Episode 16: Disputing Archives

In the third episode of ‘Reckonings with Europe: Pasts and
Present’, James Lowry and Meredith Terretta take up the object of
archives: how law conceptualizes the archives of states; the
‘displaced’, ‘disputed’ or ‘migrated’ archives left when empires
and states are reconstituted; and what state archives can and
cannot tell us.


Works mentioned, in order of mention:


James Lowry (ed), Displaced Archives (Routledge, 2017) 


James Lowry (ed), Disputed Archival
Heritage (forthcoming), esp chapter by J J Ghaddar,
‘Provenance in Place: Crafting the Vienna Convention for Global
Decolonization and Archival Repatriation’.


Meredith Terretta, Claimants, Advocates and Disrupters in
Africa’s Internationally Supervised Territories (forthcoming; for
a sense of work to date on anticolonial advocate lawyering see
‘Claiming Land, Claiming Rights in Africa’s Internationally
Supervised Territories’ in Steven L.B. Jensen and Charles Walton
(eds), Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in
History (CUP, 2022)
264-286 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008686.014;
‘Anti-Colonial Lawyering, Postwar Human Rights, and
Decolonization across Imperial Boundaries in Africa’. Canadian
Journal of History 52(3), 448-478 (2017)).


James Lowry, ‘Radical empathy, the imaginary and affect in
(post)colonial records: how to break out of international
stalemates on displaced archives’. Archival
Science 19, 185–203
(2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09305-z


(For concise background on the ‘migrated archives’, see James
Lowry & Mandy Banton / Association of Commonwealth Archivists
and Records Managers position paper).


Umut Özsu, ‘Determining New Selves: Mohammed Bedjaoui on Algeria,
Western Sahara, and Post-Classical International Law’ in Jochen
von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann (eds), The Battle for
International Law: South–North Perspectives on the Decolonization
Era (OUP, 2019) DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198849636.003.0016.


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