Many scholars write about imperial crimes as their object of study — that is, as something sealed in the past that can be separated from the reparations due.
Author Archives: Ariella Azoulay
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s research and forthcoming book (Verso, 2019) focuses on the potential history of key political concepts and institutions: the archive, sovereignty, art, and human rights. Potential history, a concept and an approach that she has developed over the last decade, has far-reaching implications for the fields of political theory, archival formations, and photography studies. Her books include: Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012), and The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008)
Understanding the Migrant Caravan in the Context of Imperial Plunder and Dispossession
The publication of Felwine Sarr and Benedicte Savoy’s report recommending the restitution of stolen African objects and the approach of what is called a “migrant caravan” toward the US is not a coincidence.