KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
In exploring the intersection of archives and coloniality, we understand the archive as both the physical structures (e.g. national, regional, local or personal) that safeguard and preserve histories -that is his/her/their/our-stories- through the collections they attend to, as well as the more conceptual framing of the “cultural archive” described by Gloria Wekker as the “racialized common sense” cemented in memories, cultural beliefs, everyday knowledge, and institutional practices (White Innocence 19).
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Inward Outward is initiated between the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and Sound and Vision, with special support from the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen’s Research Center of Material Culture (RCMC/NMvW), the first Inward Outward took place in January of 2020.