08 | The Gotcha Moment

How might we decolonize the archive? Clare and Yves are joined by Paul Daley, Walkley award-winning journalist and author whose work includes the column “Postcolonial” in the Guardian.

Episode 8 of the Archive Fever podcast, hosted by Claire Wright and Yves Rees, titled "08 | The Gotcha Moment" was published on October 20, 2019 and runs 33 minutes.

October 20, 2019 ·33m · Archive Fever

Summary

How might we decolonize the archive? Clare and Yves are joined by Paul Daley, Walkley award-winning journalist and author whose work includes the column “Postcolonial” in the Guardian. Paul shares his forays into archives of colonial destruction and reflects on his addiction to the paper trail, before grappling with some thorny human questions. What do you do with a room full of bones? Should some archives be dis-assembled? And can historians afford to bite the hand that feeds?

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