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Where is the past? It is not really behind us, but with us, constantly imagined and re-imagined in public discourse through historical narrations. Using the Clanwilliam Arts Project as a case study, this volume is founded on the 'anarchive', a conceptual constellation that positions the past in relation to the present, bringing into view strategies to facilitate remembering beyond the colonial archive.

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Carine Zaayman's chapbook makes a beautiful intervention regarding archives, artistic practice, and community building via research and imaginative collective action. Zaayman's definition of the anarchive challenges dominant modalities of European enlightenment thought, proposing a non-linear temporality grounded in 'immaterial networks of intersubjectivity' and sensorial experience. Embodiment is key in her analysis of the durational engagements of the Clanwilliam Arts Project. Ultimately, she argues that we should not seek to resolve archival absence, but to continually bring absences and silences into view, and that anarchival modes of practice and representation can articulate decolonial visions for the future. - Deborah A. Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography.

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