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Historical Silencing and Epistemic In/Justice through the UNRWA Archive

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dc.contributor.author Irfan, Anne
dc.contributor.author Kelcey, Jo
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-22T12:38:15Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-22T12:38:15Z
dc.date.copyright 2023 en_US
dc.date.issued 2024-05-22
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10725/15603
dc.description.abstract This article explores how historical silencing and epistemic in/justice occurs in and through the curation of UNRWA's central registry archive, now stored in Amman and previously located in Vienna, Gaza, and Beirut. Drawing on extensive work in the central registry and related archival collections, and critical archival theory, we show how the power dynamics of international aid, and the politics of the Palestine question, shape the collection's structure, content, and accessibility. We investigate the curation and selection of agency records, their organization, and their transparency or opacity to outsiders. In so doing, we illuminate how the curation of UNRWA's archive informs, shapes, and even distorts knowledge production on Palestinian refugee histories. By highlighting the interconnection between historical silencing and UNRWA's archives we expand understandings of the agency's complex, and at times contradictory, role in pursuing justice for Palestine refugees. Specifically, we unpack how the agency's curation of its archive can help promote its own preferred selfimage, and how this speaks to tensions at the heart of UNRWA's role. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.title Historical Silencing and Epistemic In/Justice through the UNRWA Archive en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.description.version Published en_US
dc.author.school SAS en_US
dc.author.idnumber 202005878 en_US
dc.author.department Social and Education Sciences en_US
dc.relation.journal Jerusalem Quarterly en_US
dc.journal.issue 93 en_US
dc.article.pages 13-33 en_US
dc.keywords UNRWA en_US
dc.keywords Archive en_US
dc.keywords Epistemic justice en_US
dc.keywords History en_US
dc.keywords Refugees en_US
dc.keywords Palestine en_US
dc.keywords Silencing en_US
dc.keywords Exclusion en_US
dc.identifier.ctation Irfan, A., & Kelcey, J. Historical Silencing and Epistemic In/Justice through the UNRWA Archive. Jerusalem Quarterly, 93, 13-33. en_US
dc.author.email joalix.kelcey@lau.edu.lb en_US
dc.identifier.tou http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php en_US
dc.identifier.url https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1653827 en_US
dc.orcid.id https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3989-7911 en_US
dc.author.affiliation Lebanese American University en_US


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