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Episode Synopsis
Along the case of Kenya’s “Migrated Archives” Dr Riley Linebaugh illustrates how questions of archival custody shape justice, memory, and public life, how they relate to W. E. B. Du Bois’ “colour line” and why archival accessibility is a vital asset for democracy.📚 REFERENCESRiley Linebaugh. Curating the Colonial Past: The ‘Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History (Cambridge University Press, 2025).Riley Linebaugh & James Lowry (2021). “The archival colour line: race, records and post-colonial custody”, in Archives and Records, 42(3), 284–303.Dr Riley Linebaugh: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/hi-globalgeschichte/team/dr-riley-linebaugh🔗 LINKS• Website ↗ http://www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-branches• Instagram ↗ @roots_and_branches_podcast• X ↗ @rbpod_ih• Bluesky ↗ @rbpodcast• Selma Sondern ↗ www.linkedin.com/in/selma-sondern🎶 MUSIC'A New Year' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
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