By Alice Corble and Rhiann Tester This overdue blog post features a guest contributor, Rhiann Tester, Assistant Library Administrator at Sussex. I’ll briefly introduce the context of our collaboration before handing over to Rhiann. Future blog posts will build on…
Yearly Archives: 2023
Re-collecting Ranajit Guha through a counter-archival lens
A few weeks ago I received an email requesting an interview with me from two post-graduate students at Presidency University, Kolkata, Sohini Sengupta and Sourav Chattopadhyay, who convene Bhabuk Sabha (roughly translated to The Thinker’s Club). They wanted to engage…
Posted in Library Legacies
The Power of Poetry and Living Libraries for Decolonial Dialogue
As Black History Month draws to a close (yet Black History must continue to be shared) and I adjust to the turn of the season and new positions, I want to reflect today on The Power of Poetry and Living…
Tagged with: black history, Black History Month, event, Living Archives, Poetry
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Posted in Library Legacies
Unboxing and Mapping Black History in Sussex Library Legacy Collections
This summer the Library was blessed to host its first Junior Research Associate (JRA): Myisha Box (History and International Relations BA student, now in her final year). The project was supervised by Gavin Mensah Coker and Anne-Marie Angelo, with a…
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New Leverhulme ECR fellowship: evolving maps of decolonial learning at Sussex and beyond
In the coming weeks, months and years, I will evolve the design and content present research blog to showcase further findings of the AHRC-RLUK library fellowship (2022-23) and transition into sharing content and outputs of the new Leverhulme (2023-24) project. For now you can read a summary of the new project below and watch this space for further snapshots of my research story as my decolonial library learning journey unfolds!
Posted in Research Update
Re-discovering and mapping the British Library of Development Studies Legacy Collection through global metadata space and time
“Being explorers ourselves in a new university, explorers with ample maps of other universities but with none of our own, we wanted to make our students into explorers also, to encourage them to find relations between subjects where we did…
‘Libraries of Racial Discovery’: transatlantic hidden histories and the politics of memory
Introduction In my first blog post I introduced the Centre for Multi-Racial Studies (CMRS), which was established at Sussex in 1964 and ran until 1974, with its main site in Barbados in partnership with the University of the West Indies.…
Tagged with: Centre for Multi-Racial Studies, Fernando Henriques, Hidden Histories, Living Archives
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Posted in Library Legacies