For the archive yet to come
Colonial archives hold the violence of the past, but they also carry the potential for anti-colonial futures—if radically reimagined for justice and accessibility.
2 Articles by:
Charlotte Mertens
Dr Charlotte Mertens's work, drawing on ethnographic and archival research, focuses on the politics and ethics of knowledge and representation of sexual violence (in conflict settings and elsewhere), colonialism and decolonisation. She examines histories of sexual violence in the Congo Free State (1885-1908), and the Belgian Congo (1908-1960) and the linkages between sexualised violence, the state and settler colonialism.
Resources and rape: The DRC’s (toxic) discursive complex
On the emergence and political work of the rape-resources narrative in the eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo).