“The counter-archive acknowledges, rather than evades or suppresses, the geopolitics that produced hegemonic archival definitions and practices to begin with—mired as they are in colonial entanglements—and that also led to the destruction of repositories in war-torn geographies.”

Publication: “The Counter-Archive: Eluding the Erasures of Iraq's Successive Wars,” The American Archivist 86, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2023): 419–435.

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