Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary by Whitlock, Gillian
Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary by Whitlock, Gillian

Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary

This book introduces the unique archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, emails and photographs from asylum seekers...
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Author: Gillian Whitlock
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Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary by Whitlock, Gillian

Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary

$2,228.89
Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary by Whitlock, Gillian

Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary

$2,228.89
Author: Gillian Whitlock
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

This book introduces the unique archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, emails and photographs from asylum seekers held indefinitely in offshore detention at Topside Camp, Nauru 2001-5. These artefacts introduce the distinctive and creative forms of resistance produced by asylum seekers in the remote Pacific camps on Nauru and Manus Island, and they expose their experiential histories of radical suffering and trauma. Paying due deference to the creative and aesthetic agency of these various documents and artefacts created by the undocumented here, Gillian Whitlock generates a cultural biography of the Nauru camp that humanizes those who have remained unseen and unheard, and features the activist campaigns and the political resistance that assert the agency of witnessing refugees. Structured around the collections of various artefacts exchanged between detainees and humanitarian activists, Refugee Lives in the Archives draws on emerging theories from detention centres and the asylum seekers themselves in a distinctive and expansive Pacific imaginary of refugee life narrative.
Building on Whitlock's substantial body of work in testimonial, documentary and archive practices, this book focuses on the 'testimony of things' and probes an approach to archival studies that moves life writing in new directions, to respond collaboratively to the diverse materiality of story-telling and exchanges in the unique and creative forms of asylum seekers' voices, stories and epistemologies.



Author: Gillian Whitlock
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 08/22/2024
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781350279988

About the Author
Gillian Whitlock is Emeritus Professor in the school of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a fellow of The Australian Academy of the Humanities. She has published numerous books, including The Intimate Empire (2000), Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit (2007), and Postcolonial Life Narratives: Testimonial Transactions (2015).
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