Refugee lives in the archives a Pacific imaginary / Gillian Whitlock.
| Author/creator | Whitlock, Gillian |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. |
| Description | xi, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Pacific imaginary |
| Series | New Directions in Life Narrative. New directions in life narrative. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Inhumanities -- The epistolarium -- Maps -- Textiles -- Snapshots -- The work of art: SIEV X. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-162) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Whitlock, Gillian. Refugee Lives in the Archives. 1st ed. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 9781350280014 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024404886 |
| ISBN | 1350279986 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781350279988 (hb) |
| ISBN | (epdf) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |