Bearing Witness

Articulating an Archival Practice

Authors

  • Ali Akbar Mehta Aalto-yliopisto

Keywords:

numeron taiteilija, Arts, Archive, conflict

Abstract

The number and intensity of conflicts that our age is a witness to are both perplexing and overwhelming. With ongoing instances of wars, conflicts, insurgencies, genocide-level pogroms, riots, bombings, state & extra-state actions and operations, the people of our age have diversified the terminology pertaining to aggressive friction and violence. Furthermore, indirect violence and softer modes of conflicts – whether as forms of patriarchal, ethnic, racialised, colourist, ableist, or gendered enforcement of domination, or the colonial and caste-based extensions of supremacy – continue to alienate us from each other on a daily basis. We live in an age of rising ethnofascism and disintegrating democracies, where conflicts, pandemics, and human crises have become yet another tool for capitalist societies to recycle pain.

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Published

2022-06-17

How to Cite

Mehta, A. A. (2022). Bearing Witness: Articulating an Archival Practice. Tiede & edistys, 47(1–2), 35–41. Retrieved from https://tiedejaedistys.journal.fi/article/view/120081

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Section

Numeron taiteilija