Inward Outward, Critical Archival Engagements with Sounds and Films of Coloniality

A Publication of the 2020 Inward Outward Symposium

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ID7436730
AuthorsRachel Somers Miles (International Institute of Social History), Alana Osbourne (0000-0003-2292-0521, International Institute of Social History), Eleni Tzialli (International Institute of Social History), Esther Captain
Year2020
Publication date2020-12-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREPORT
PublisherInward Outward (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18146/inout2020
OpenAlexW3110972270
LanguageEN
References cited20

Reimagining the ArchiveTerminology the gap between one's race, colonial history, and sexuality that might be seen as at odds with or conforming to normative politics and archival practices.Finally, in closing, we will gesture to how Betty Paërl, and our attempt to research her life, scattered among several specialized archives, helps us to reflect on the triangle of positionality formed between researcher-archive-collaborator. Magical TermsMagical thinking is when one believes that one's own thoughts and desires can influence the world.Magical thinking might be considered committed by researchers who in merely citing an on-trend concept like queer or decolonial and believe that it does the work of "queering" or "decolonizing."We gesture to the history of how unmarked or undefined terms like "sexuality" or "human," or "human sexuality" for that matter, would be implicitly standing for heterosexuality or white man if left unscrutinized by researchers.The choice might be to either not say the term and do the work, or invoke the term as a full-fledged concept with its own histories and signatures, that is, as dated and signed by certain users/theorists.For us, the worst-case scenario is to use the term so lightly or so loosely that the only effect is you feel you can pat yourself on the back for knowing it is on-trend and "believing" that you have done enough just saying it out loud

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