what counts as evidence/ constitutes an archive

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  • what is the role of power in determining what counts as evidence or what constitutes an archive? (White wk3, Troullet wk7)
    • the need for black people to have a history of resistance
      • "we all need histories that no history book can tell" - Troulliot pg71
      • what is truth
    • changing... what counts as evidence - embrace the ficticious
      • Luise White - discounted, but shows beyond the true/ false binary - authorial intent
        • shows contemporary attitudes and if its was believed, how it was transmitted - L White 320
      • Saidiya Hartman and critical fabulation - an attempt to correct these silences in the archives
    • lack of docs and evidence in the archives
      • archives been manipulated? - lack of documented evidence
      • James Scott - seeing the state - an appendage of the state - ideology and propaganda
    • evidence - docs, Ranke, evidence under a microscope
      • Bury, colonial history and archive - but changing!!

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