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(Un)sighted Archives of Migration : Spaces of Encounter and Resistance, Paperback / softback Book

(Un)sighted Archives of Migration : Spaces of Encounter and Resistance Paperback / softback

Edited by Cathrine (Heidelberg University, Germany) Bublatzky, Fiona (University of Basel, Switzerland) Siegenthaler

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(Un)sighted Archives of Migration acknowledges that migration is a fundamental part of social practice and collective memory.

However, archives that have undergone migration or were established by individuals or communities with migration experience gain little public and institutional attention. This volume with its transversal perspective across the fields of art, anthropology and social activism, offers new perspectives on the enormous potential of migratory archives as resourceful spaces for encounter and remembrance, and as a contribution to the plural collective memories and identities of post-migratory societies.

Emphasizing the archival agency by migrants, the chapters raise new questions with regard to the multi-directional, collaborative forms of knowledge production within and beyond an archive, its boundaries, and its materiality. Focusing on the complexities of power relations, spatial and temporal dynamics, media practices, and meaning production involved in the making, maintenance, viewing, appropriation, destruction and loss of such archives, the chapters contribute to a critical methodological and theoretical discussion about (un)sighted archives as spaces of encounter and resistance in a liminal zone of visibility and invisibility. This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Anthropology.

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