CFP: Archiving Against Genocide: A Global Indigenous Conversation
Over 22 months into the livestreamed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and of escalating aggression and war across Palestine and West Asia, the world has been starkly and painfully reminded that global white power is built on and requires ongoing genocides. Settler colonialism, with its annihilating drive, is as world-making to western modernity as it is world-shattering to indigenous[1] and native societies. From the transatlantic slave trade that funded Europe’s industrial revolutions and enlightenments; to the “bloodied soil of genocide” (Grande 2015/2004, p.32) of Indigenous nations across the Americas and Pacific on which white nations like Canada are built; to the engineered famines and sadistic partitions that reconfigure land and people across Asia, the archives and archival profession have offered epistemicide and settler amnesia to enable and institutionalize the erasure of entire societies, groups and life worlds. We mark this urgent moment for Palestine and humanity by convening a global indigenous conversation on archiving against genocide through this Call for Proposals for a special issue of Journal of Critical Library & Information Studies. This special issue speaks to the gap in archival science on the topic of genocide, one that severely disadvantages archival scholars and professionals who are working in contexts of genocide and ethnic cleansing (Ghaddar 2025).
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