ABOUT US

Liberatory Archives and Memory (LAMy) is a programme at Whose Knowledge? an action to build critical archival knowledge and document archival practices. It brings together a community of individuals, groups, and institutions from across the world to collectively reimagine “the archive” and “sites of memory” as powerful spaces and acts of resistance, healing, and transformation. 

Central to the program are the infrastructures of (liberatory) archives and memory for imagining alternatives to Big Knowledge (archives, museums, libraries and other memory institutions such as academic and publishing) and examine how knowledge, history, and memory are produced, held, and shared.

Whose Knowledge? is a global, translocal multilingual non-profit organization and a campaign centering the multiple knowledges, histories, leadership, and imaginations of the minoritised majority of the world (including but not only, on the internet), towards collective liberation. We are working towards feminist and plural futures anchored in reparative frameworks and practices at the intersections of epistemic, social, and tech justice.

The Global Majority comprises 3/4 of the online population, coming from Asia, Africa, Latin America. Our leadership, design, and imaginations have rarely been centered in institutions of what we call “Big Knowledge” (mainstream academia, publishing, museums, archives, libraries and memory organizations) as well as “Big Tech” (Silicon Valley and other regionally dominant tech capitalist companies). To address this, we intentionally collaborate with women, indigenous and racialised communities, LGBTQI+ communities from the Global South to build towards more representation of our knowledge.