Geographical scholarship has rightly problematised the act of archival research, showing
how the practice of archiving is not only concerned with how a society collectively …

It would have been too good if that mythical portrait had remained a pure illusion, a look at
the colonized which would only have softened the colonizer's bad conscience. However …

This paper describes the history of an initiative to digitize a postcolonial archive on the
struggle for freedom in Southern Africa. The authors outline the intellectual architecture of …

Why explore the life of an archive, and what might it mean to study its “life” as opposed to
writing its history? The proposition of an archive having a life is, on the face of it, counter …

Translated from the Portuguese expression arquivo morto, the dead archive is a site where
files that have lost their procedural validity are stored for a determined number of years …

Translatio studii—literally, the “transfer” or “translation” of knowledge—speaks of Western
imperial triumphalism, from the medieval origins of the term to its eighteenth-century …

This essay argues that the critical practice of New Historicism is a mode of “literary” history
whose “literariness” lies in bringing imaginative operations closer to the surface of …

During the last few decades, numerous scholars have become alarmed and suspicious of
archives. No longer simply a tool of the historian's trade, the archive, Ann Stoler explains," …

Through an analysis of violent conflict in Aceh, Indonesia, this article develops a series of
principles for analyzing conflicts that appear to be intractable, noting how certain conflict …

Goan inquisition case summaries from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provide
invaluable information about African and Asian slaves in the Estado da Índia, the eastern …