Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums.īy practicing what she calls potential history, Dr. In her 2019 book, Potential History – Unlearning Imperialism, Professor Ariella Aïsha Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay in Conversation with Laurie Monahan, with Moderator Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
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