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Journal Article
History without Documents
2015
Overview
Shakry explores the idea of a \"history without documents,\" first by outlining the material inaccessibility of postcolonial state archives in the Middle East, and second by questioning the compositional logics of archival imaginaries of decolonization. She also determines the ways historians have remembered, forgotten, or appropriated the various intellectual traditions that belonged to the era of decolonization in the Middle East. By shifting people's attention away from dominant and declensionist narratives of decolonization as a state-driven and secular political process so as to include members of the intelligentsia, social scientists, and religious thinkers, who are by-passed in or excised from traditional archives, she suggests that they might better see decolonization as \"an ongoing process and series of struggles rather than a finite event, as regional as well as national, intellectual and cultural as well as political, and religious as well as secular.\"
Publisher
Oxford University Press
