Postcolonial Empires
Theme: Institutions and Historiographies
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
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Seminar Reading
Clough, Marshall. “Mau Mau and the Contest for Memory”, (Chapter 11 of Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Nationhood. Ed. E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and John Lonsdale. Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP, 2003.
Forsdick, Charles. “Interpreting 2004: Politics, Memory, Scholarship.” small axe 27 (2008): 1-13.
Harlow, Barbara. “Sappers in the Stacks: Colonial Archives, Land Mines, and Truth Commissions.” boundary 2 25.2 (1998): 179-204.
Hughes, Lotte (Principal Investigator). “Managing Heritage, Building Peace: Museums, Memorialisation and the Uses of Memory in Kenya.” 7 July 2009. <http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/memorialisation/index.html>. 27 August 2009.
Imperial War Museum. <http://www.iwm.org.uk/>. 30 July 2009.
Lonsdale, John. “Soil, Work, Civilization and Citizenship in Kenya” Journal of Eastern African Studies 2.2 July 2008.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Selected Further Reading
Benjamin, Walter. “Unpacking my Library” and “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Illuminations. Trans. Harry Zorn. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. 61-69, 245-255.
Brown, Alison Kay & Laura Peers, eds. Museums and Source Communities: A Reader. London: Routledge, 2003.
De Certeau, Michel. “The Historiograhical Operation.” The Writing of History. Trans. Tom Conley NY: Col Uni Press, 1988.
Coombes, Annie. History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003.
---. Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in late Victorian and Edwardian England. London: Yale University Press, 1994.
Derrida, Jacques. “Archive Fever.” Diacritics 25.2 (1995): 9-63.
Dipesh Chakrabarty “Radical Histories and the Question of Enlightenment Rationalisism: Some Recent Critiques of Subaltern Studies” Economic and Political Weekly 30.14 (April 1995): 751-9.
Eakin, Hugh. “Who Should Own the World's Antiquities?” NY Review of Books 56.8 (May 14 2009). <http://bit.ly/oynVJ>.
Eskander, Saad. “Iraq Diary” and ‘The Tale of Iraq’s ‘Cemetery of Books.’ http://www.bl.uk/iraqdiary.html
Fredrickson, George. “The concept of racism in historical discourse” Racism: A Short History. Princeton, N.J.; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Ghosh, Amitav. In an Antique Land. 1992. London: Granta Books, 1998.
Gopal, Priyamvada. “Reading Subaltern History.” The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. Cambridge: CUP, 2004: 139-161.
Guha, Ranajit. “The Prose of Counter-Insurgency.” Subaltern Studies II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983: 1-42.
Holtorf, Cornelius. “Notes on the Life History of a Potshard.” The Modern Historiography Reader. Ed. Adam Budd. London: Routledge, 2009.
Ignatieff, Michael. “The Nightmare From Which We Are Trying to Awake.” The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience. London: Chatto & Windus, 1998. 166-90.
The Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past, University of York http://www.york.ac.uk/ipup/
Kennedy, Maev. “Restored Baghdad Museum Reopens with Most of its Greatest Treasures.” 23 February 2009. The Guardian News Blog. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/feb/23/iraqandthearts-iraq>. 30 July 2009.
MacDonald, Sharon. Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum. Oxford: Berg, 2002.
McKeown, Adam. “Ritualization of Regulation: Enforcing Chinese Exclusion, 1898-1924.” American Historical Review 108 (2003): 377-403.
Parry, Benita. “Reconciliation and Remembrance.” Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique. London: Routledge, 2004. 179-194.
Pax, Salam. “Behind the Scenes at Iraq’s Museum.” 23 February 2009.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/23/iraq-museums>. 30 July 2009.
Price, Sally. Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac’s Museum on the Quai Branly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Richards, Thomas. The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire. London: Verso, 1993.
Rothfield, Lawrence. The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
