Seeking justice in (and beyond) colonial carceral archives

• In Event: Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice – Panel II

Abstract

This chapter examines the complexities, contradictions, and opportunities for archival research within broadly decolonial critical carceral and justice studies. After reviewing relevant literatures, it draws on the author’s experience in assisting the First Nation Deaths in Custody Watch Committee of Western Australia to ensure the survival of their archives so that the stories of struggle they contain are not lost. Engagement with documentary pasts is part of an ongoing struggle for justice in the Australian settler colony.

Author

• Ethan Blue, University of Western Australia