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Contents
On ‘Under The Banana Tree’
Our Song: A Few Stories About Women in Kelapa Sawit
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On Oral History and Podcasting: An Illustrated Manual
Confined History: Re-investigating Leftist Ideas and Narratives of Resistance Behind Bars
“What is so special about them to warrant a world-wide fuss?”: On Operation Spectrum and International Solidarity
Circulating Anti-Colonial Imaginaries: Selected Publications Across The Border of Malaya(sia) & Singapore
Tales of Objects: Memories and Fragments of the 2020 Thailand’s Political Uprising
Provocations from Tools For Radical Study
October 6 1976: Massacre in Three Objects
A Year in Review
Editorial Fragments
by Zikri Rahman, Coordinator for Under The Banana Tree Archival Network
Under The Banana Tree is a convergence of diverse networks of mostly Southeast Asia-based independent and community-driven archival organisations devoted to preserving and sharing along the strands of people’s histories. It is, for multiple organisations affiliated with the network, an attempt to intervene in the historical ruptures on how the people relate their pasts to the present: the archive is one way to do it.
Archive, as a methodology and concept, provides the possibility of writing the counternarratives and fracturing the homogenous historical-making process. Or rather, what we trace through this inaugural edition of zine, aptly titled Archival Fragments, is the hope of building from the fragments and the whole of which it definitely constitutes as a part of History.
Assemblages of forms of archival praxis have been contributed by the network in making this zine a reality. Ranging
from multi-lingual illustrations, texts, printed materials, images, objects, a practical podcast-making process, to tools for collective learning evoke plethoras of engaging with the idea of archival fragments. It is for us to gather and make sense, or embrace the ambivalent nature of the archive: it is our intention for fellow readers to dig deeper under the banana tree.