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Conversations with community archivists, historians, cultural workers and artists working with archives
Exploring decolonial approaches to archiving, including frames and methodologies, through reflections, critical essays and articles.
BLACK GEOGRAPHIES OF KINGS HILL, DOMINICA: A PHOTO-ESSAY
Home, heritage, and belonging – these are the threads that weave through this work. Consisting of 27,000 words of fieldnotes, analogue photographs, montage film clips, and soundscapes, “Black Geographies of Kings Hill, Dominica” is a record of the photographer’s first trip to Dominica.
Mother, Memory, History.
Through photography, poetry, and generational memory, Marcia Michael explores how maternal stories carry suppressed histories into the light and re-imagines archives as reclamation, where the Black matrilineal voice becomes both methodology and testimony.
“We, the Living Archives”
Our UK Community of Practice knowledge production series opens with “We, the Living Archives” by Dr Savita Vij reflecting on our Brighton gathering of memory workers, exploring archives as relational and emotional spaces. It emphasises archives as open, evolving, interwoven with identity, grief, creativity and collective memory.
Syrian Design Archive
Ezrena Marwan and Sally Al-Haq, co-leads of the Liberatory Archives and Memory (LAMy) programme, had the pleasure of meeting Hala Al-Afsaa, one of the co-founders of the Syrian Design Archive (SDA), during her time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
International Archives Day 2025
The following audio reflections, recorded during the Liberatory Archives and Memory Brighton convening, feature members of the UK Community of Practice addressing the urgent question: How can we use the current political climate we’re in right now to shape the needs of memory work?
Majd Al-Shihabi and the mission to produce more knowledge and archives in Arabic
A podcast with Majd Al-Shihabi and the mission to produce more knowledge and archives in Arabic. This podcast is an episode from Whose Voices? published on March 13, 2023.