Curating the Colonial Past
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-52541-1 (ISBN)
In the early 1960s, British colonial administrations in East Africa organized the systematic destruction and removal of secret documents from colonies approaching independence. The Colonial Office in London arranged the deposit of these documents in high security facilities, where they remained inaccessible until 2011 following a compensation suit by Kenyan survivors of British colonial rule against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Curating the Colonial Past presents the first full length exploration of these 'migrated archives', chronicling the struggle between British attempts to conceal and Kenyan efforts to reveal evidence of the colonial past. Neither displayed nor destroyed, Riley Linebaugh explores how these records formed an archival limbo in which the British government delayed moral and legal judgement of empire. Yet, these practices did not go unchallenged. Linebaugh demonstrates how disputes over the 'migrated archives' facilitated the continuation of anticolonial sovereignty struggles beyond independence, struggles which persist into the present.
Riley Linebaugh is a Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher in British History at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where her research focuses on the history of British colonial archives. Linebaugh has also worked as an archivist at the Kabale and Jinja District Archives and High Court of Justice in Kampala, Uganda. Her work with James Lowry on the Archival Colour Line was awarded the Society of American Archivists' Archival History Award.
Introduction; Part I. Struggle to Conceal: 1. Protecting bad intel in a dirty war; 2. Secret-keepers and mythmakers; 3. 'Operation legacy'; 4. The scramble for Kenya's history and the making of an archival limbo; Part II. Struggle to Reveal: 5. International archival (B)orders; 6. 'The memory of a nation:' The co-development of Kenya and its archives; 7. Decolonization and the struggle for Kenya's 'migrated archives'; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | African Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-52541-7 / 1009525417 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-52541-1 / 9781009525411 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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