Ep8: The Gotcha Moment
How might we decolonize the archive? Clare and Yves are joined by Paul Daley, Walkley award-winning journalist and author whose work includes the column “Postcolonial” in the Guardian. Paul shares his forays into archives of colonial destruction and reflects on his addiction to the paper trail, before grappling with some thorny human questions. What do you do with a room full of bones? Should some archives be dis-assembled? And can historians afford to bite the hand that feeds?
Clare Wright, Pauley Daley and Yves Rees
References
Paul Daley Challenge (2014)
Paul Daley On Patriotism (2018)
Paul Daley’s “Postcolonial” in The Guardian
Follow Paul Daley on Twitter @paulddaley
Further Reading
Paul Daley, “Restless Indigenous Remains,” Meanjin 73, no. 1 (2014).
