A Letter for Missing and Disappeared Archives

Auteurs-es

  • Elspeth Iralu Assistant Professor of Indigenous Planning, University of New Mexico

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v23i2.2396

Mots-clés :

Nagaland, archives, colonialism and decolonization, sovereignty, storytelling

Résumé

In this letter, Elspeth Iralu initiates a time-travelling correspondence with her paternal grandfather, Vichazelhu Iralu, about his dreams for the Naga sovereignty movement. The letter grieves the loss of personal and political archives that were stolen, disappeared, and destroyed through processes of colonization. Iralu offers letter-writing, shaped by Naga modes of storytelling, as an anticolonial epistemology that enacts Naga sovereignty in the here and now.

Références

Iralu, Kaka D. 2016. A reluctant second reply to Robert A. Silverstein. Morung Express. https://morungexpress.com/reluctant-second-reply-robert-silverstein-0 (accessed 3.12.24).

Iralu, Niketu and Christine Iralu. 2023. Personal communication with the author. September 2, 2023.

Iralu, Vichazelhu. 1964. "Production of Trypanosoma cruzi Cysts in vitro." Nature 204: 4957, 486-487.

Krishnan, Sneha. 2023. Open Peer Review for ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. September 23, 2023.

Lhousa. Zapuvisie. 2020. Personal communication with the author. Nagaland: Sechü-Zubza. January 2020.

Longkumer, Arkotong and Meren Imchen (illustrator). 2023. A Path Home: A Graphic Novel on Naga Repatriation. Guwahati: RRaD, Dimapur & North Eastern Research Centre.

Ozeki, Ruth. 2013. A Tale for the Time Being. New York: Penguin Books.

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Publié-e

2024-04-15

Comment citer

Iralu, E. (2024). A Letter for Missing and Disappeared Archives. ACME: E-Revue Internationale De géographies Critiques, 23(2), 161–165. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v23i2.2396

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Special Issue: Desirable Futures