The Archive: Fragments and Forces of Indigeneity
<p>In this podcast, Renisa Mawani introduces her current work that uses the migrant ship <em>Komagata Maru </em>to address migration within its legal and temporal dimensions. We then continue this conversation by examining the arguments she made in the 2012 article “Law’s Archive,” which examines the available means to archive law within the collective narrative that the archive constitutes. The archive’s means are politically and physically determined in such a way that indigenous contributions—not always textual for instance—to this collective narrative cannot fully take part in it. This conversation therefore has a goal to challenge the way we commonly understand the notion of archive in the Western world, in order for a larger plurality of narratives to enter the common history.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Renisa Mawani
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast