Activities

Themes

A [Trail and] Tale of Thai Grassroots Women’s Archive and Research (TGWAR)

Archiving, Democracy, Education, Feminism, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, Peasants, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural

Drawing on decades of diaries, petitions, and letters from the Thai Grassroots Women’s Archive and Research (TGWAR), the writing explores herstories of personal struggle that form a people’s archive, preserving rural women’s voices, resistance, and everyday negotiations of power.

RUAS Sebagai Gerakan Perempuan dan Perlawanan

1965, Archiving, Communism, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Genocide, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, People’s History, Proletariat, Socialism, Visual Culture

Seperti apa Ruang Arsip & Sejarah Wanita (RUAS) memposisikan entitasnya sebagai laboratorium pengetahuan, ruang refleksi, dan medan perjuangan melalui proses pengarkibannya?

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

Plantation Afterlives: Songs, Memories, and the Politics of Care is a conversation centered on the filmmaking practices exploring songs, memory, oral traditions, and the worlds of Tamil plantation histories in Malaya(sia).

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

The webinar explores Gogularajaan Rajendran’s exploration of filmmaking on Tamil plantation histories, archiving as healing, and the politics of care and remembrance.

Legacy Of Resistance: Uncovering the History of The Indonesian People’s Struggle

1965, Archiving, Communism, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Genocide, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, People’s History, Proletariat, Socialism, Visual Culture

How do Indonesia’s leftist history, suppressed since 1965, is revived through the ongoing archival praxis of Lembaga Sejarah Sosialis Indonesia (LSSI) in tracing socialist movements, preserving collective memory, activism, and knowledge?

Esty Pratiwi Lubarman

Esty is the organiser at the Institute of Indonesian Socialist History (IISH), an organisation initiated by the Socialist Union. Given the vacuum of left movement or democratic group in Indonesia dedicated to unifying, collecting and using the documents of the left movement in Indonesia, the organisation attempts to pursue three objectives; 1) to research the history of left movements in Indonesia; 2) to preserve critical discourses and theories and finally, 3) to reduce the literacy gap regarding leftist movements among the younger generation. Foregrounding and responding to critical historical conditions in Indonesia, central to its archival practices are to document the catastrophe of 1965 and the subsequent militarist-led counter-revolution that established the New Order dictatorship under Suharto resulted in the deaths of millions of people from the perspectives of various leftist organisations in Indonesia.