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Featuring curated writings on plethora of interests
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- 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.
- Archiving, Democracy, Education, Knowledge Production, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Visual Culture
Imagined Malaysia democratises public history through inclusive and creative initiatives in challenging ethnonationalist narratives. By foregrounding layered histories of migration and marginalised voices, the organisation envision the idea of empowering Malaysians to critically reimagine the past together
- 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.