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Women’s Under-representation and Decolonizing the Archival Experience
from Part VIII - Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
The archival record, in all its forms, plays a significant role in the documentation of histories, peoples, and events. In the Pacific region, archival collections typically reflect their respective colonizers’ interests, are written in colonial languages, and are confined in different and far-flung collections. Furthermore, underlying these archives lies a complex variety of gender issues. Hence, this chapter considers the broad archival record in Oceania as a body of privileged knowledge embedded within the deep material cultures of the Islands and oftentimes strongly evoking emotions and memory. It seeks to privilege women’s experience and voices to generate meaningful discussions. As Natalie Harkin eloquently expresses of Australian Aboriginal archives,
Our family archives are like maps that haunt and guide us toward paths past-travelled and directions unknown. We travel through these archives that offer up new stories and collections of data, and a brutal surveillance is exposed at the hands of the State. We gain insight into intimate conversations, letters, behaviours and movements, juxtaposed with categorisations of people, places, landscapes and objects. These records are our memories and lives; material, visceral, flesh and blood.1
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