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PUBLIC LECTURE RECORDING: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x PSR x Mandiri – An Agenda for Sejarah Rakyat in Indonesia
In expanding the discourse of sejarah rakyat (people's history) in Indonesia, Prof. John Roosa draws on his decades-long research on the 1965–66 mass violence, as well as the collective work of the Indonesian Institute of Social History (Institut Sejarah Sosial Indonesia). Building on these experiences, this lecture revisits a perennial question: who is "below" and who is "above"? It also explores how the notion of "the people" can be understood and rethought within contemporary historical writing.
Dormancy – Red Thailand’s Closet Archives
"...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.”
RUAS as a Women’s and Resistance Movement
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?
Under The Banana Tree Regional Workshop: Strengthening Grassroots and Civil Archives in Southeast Asia
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.
Under The Banana Tree Zine #1 – Archival Fragments
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.