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- Archiving, Decolonisation, Democracy, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, Oral History, Peasants, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural, Socialism, Visual Culture
"...In the back of cupboards, wardrobes and under mattresses in homes of the poor there are archives of the oppressed. The mementos of resistance that have been carefully stored, hidden for a later date. In Thailand, despite the mass repression of the Red Shirt Movement, these archives still wait optimistically for another future...", writes Gabriel Kay Young of DinDeng, a Thailand-based collective exploring proletarian and subaltern struggles in the “Land of Smiles.”
- 1965, Archiving, Communism, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Genocide, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, People’s History, Proletariat, Socialism, Visual Culture
How does Ruang Arsip & Sejarah Wanita (RUAS) position its identity as a laboratory of knowledge, a space for reflection, and a field of struggle through its archiving praxis?
- Archiving, Democracy, Education, Feminism, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, Peasants, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural
Building on the momentum of public-facing initiatives by the Under The Banana Tree (UTBT) Archival Network, there is a strategic need to collectively explore the archival praxis from Southeast Asia.
With the broad themes of strengthening grassroots and civil archives in the region, the three days workshop (26 - 28 February 2026) comprised of presentations, archival showcase, inaugural zine distribution to public seminar which involved almost 40 local and international participants.
- 1965, Afro-Asia, Archiving, Collectivism, Communism, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Feminism, Genocide, Indigenous, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, Oral History, Peasants, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural, Socialism, Visual Culture
Deriving from assemblages of archival praxis from Under The Banana Tree Archival Network, the inaugural zine entitled 'Archival Fragments' locates multi-lingual illustrations, texts, printed materials, images, objects, a practical podcast-making process, to tools for collective learning in evoking the idea of archive as methodologies.
- 1965, Archiving, Collectivism, Communism, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Feminism, Genocide, Indigenous, Knowledge Production, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Proletariat, Socialism
In drawing attention to multiple forms of archival resources: from letters, writing materials, testimonials and lived experiences of political detainees and torture survivors, how does such materials provide transnational insights to the socio-political contexts in the region? What goes behind the process of confronting the traumatic past, present and future within our milieu? How do we perceive the challenges in disseminating such materials in the struggle for truth and reconciliation?
Webinars
Explore our webinar series focusing on multifaceted archival praxis from the region and beyond.
PUBLIC SEMINAR RECORDING: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network – Records of Resistance: Looking Through Writings of Political Prisoners & Stories of Torture Survivors
- 1965, Archiving, Collectivism, Communism, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Feminism, Genocide, Indigenous, Knowledge Production, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Proletariat, Socialism
WEBINAR RECORDING & SUMMARY: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Scholar Chronicles Webinar #5 – Genocide in Indonesia and Beyond
- 1965, Archiving, Communism, Education, Genocide, Knowledge Production, Memory, Oral History, People’s History
WEBINAR RECORDING & SUMMARY: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Pusat Sejarah Rakyat Webinar #4 – The Plantation Afterlives: Songs, Memories and Politics of Care
- Archiving, Decolonisation, Education, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural, Visual Culture
Events
Highlighting events, ranging from workshops, discussion and publications organised by the network
- 1965, Archiving, Collectivism, Communism, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Feminism, Genocide, Indigenous, Knowledge Production, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Proletariat, Socialism
In drawing attention to multiple forms of archival resources: from letters, writing materials, testimonials and lived experiences of political detainees and torture survivors, how does such materials provide transnational insights to the socio-political contexts in the region? What goes behind the process of confronting the traumatic past, present and future within our milieu? How do we perceive the challenges in disseminating such materials in the struggle for truth and reconciliation?
- Archiving, Decolonisation, Education, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural, Visual Culture
The webinar explores Gogularajaan Rajendran’s exploration of filmmaking on Tamil plantation histories, archiving as healing, and the politics of care and remembrance.