Listening Back to the Archives

Mohammad Namazi considers the work of Mitra Tabrizian, John Akomfrah and Gurinder Chadha, amongst others, to question the ‘cultural memory’ of the archive and its colonial legacies.

Although the recent drives for decolonisation in many UK institutions has seen an engagement with so-called minority groups, there is the possibility that problems can be disguised under new languages of coloniality.