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  • 5 - International Archival (B)Orders

  • from Part II - Struggle to Reveal
  • Riley Linebaugh, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Book:
    Curating the Colonial Past
    Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 167-199

  • Summary

    Chapter 5 provides an overview of the development of the International Council on Archives and its role mediating custodial disputes over colonial archives. This chapter, admittedly, interrupts the book’s narrative. Chronologically, it covers the late 1940s through the 1970s and largely examines the council’s main conferences during the period in order to trace the emergence of the notion of the “migrated archives” and debates over their custody. Like the role of international organizations themselves, this chapter is significant but somewhat detached from the realm of everyday activity surrounding Kenya’s “migrated archives.” However, as is demonstrated by the chapter, it provided important resources with which former colonies advocated the return of political documents as a matter of postcolonial sovereignty. These advocacy efforts were stalled by the reconfiguration of imperial hegemony upon which the International Council on Archives was based.