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Curating the Colonial Past

By Riley Linebaugh

Curating the Colonial Past

By Riley Linebaugh

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Product details
Number of Pages:
342
Release Date:
2025-08-31
Publication Date:
2025-08-26
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009525417
ISBN13:
9781009525411
Weight:
647 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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