Introduction: Outing Archives, Archives Outing

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Notes

1. We signal here Walter Mignolo’s framing of the decolonial as an undoing of US and European imperialist epistemes. But we simultaneously acknowledge that, in the guise of the decolonial that seeks to decentre colonial power towards achieving self-determined sovereignty, previously colonised nations such as India are exercising fundamentalist nationalisms that manifest as neo-colonialist stances upon its own minoritised communities in the twenty-first century.

2. Prarthana Purkayastha, ‘The Problem with Dance’, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies; Special Issue ‘Decolonizing Dance Discourses’ (2021), 28–29. https://dancestudiesassociation.org/publications/conversations-across-the-field-of-dance-studies/decolonizing-dance-discourses.

3. Jasmine Johnson, ‘Black Laws of Dance’, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies; Special Issue ‘Decolonizing Dance Discourses’ (2021), 25–27. https://dancestudiesassociation.org/publications/conversations-across-the-field-of-dance-studies/decolonizing-dance-discourses.

4. Michel Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge (London: Routledge, 2002), 146.

5. Ibid.

6. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 3.

7. Michael P. Brown, Closet Space: Geographies of Metaphor from the Body to the Globe (London: Routledge, 2000), 2–3.

8. Zethu Matebeni and Thabo Msibi, ‘Vocabularies of the non-normative’, Agenda 29, no. 1 (2015), 3–9: 4.

9. Matebeni and Msibi, ‘Vocabularies’, 7.

10. See Keguro Macharia, ‘Archive and method in Queer African Studies’, Agenda 29, no. 1: 140–46.

11. Phillip Brian Harper, ‘The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Experience, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge’, in Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, ed. E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 110.

12. Macharia, ‘Archive and method’, 143, 144.

13. Anurima Banerji, ‘Introductory Remarks for Agonistic Acts: Anti-Racist and Decolonial Interventions for Dance Studies’, Closing Plenary at Dance Studies Association’s Annual Conference, University of Malta, 2018. Unpublished.

14. Anjali Arondekar, For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009), 21.

15. Tavia Nyong’o, ‘Does Staging Historical Trauma Re-Enact It?’ in Thinking Through Theatre and Performance, ed. Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear, Joe Kelleher, and Heike Roms (London: Methuen Drama, 2019), 202.

16. Carolyn Steedman, Dust (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001), 68.

17. Dominic Johnson, ‘How Can Performance Disrupt Institutional Spaces?’ in Thinking Through Theatre and Performance, ed. Bleeker, Kear, Kelleher, and Roms, 251.

18. Diana Taylor, ¡Presente!: The Politics of Presence (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020), 7.

19. Adriaan van Klinken, Kenyan, Christian, Queer (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019), 141.

20. Anjali Arondekar, ‘Border/line Sex: Queer Postcolonialities, or How Race Matters Outside the United States’, Interventions 7, no. 2 (2005): 236–50, 250.

21. Ashley Currier and Thérèse Migraine-George, ‘Queer Studies/African Studies: An (Im)possible Transaction?’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 22, no. 2 (2016), 281–305: 293.

22. Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010), 44, 47. Stoler herself treats archives not as state repositories but as colonial repertoires.

23. Carolyn Dinshaw, Getting Medieval (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), 36.

24. Michelle Caswell, Ricardo Punzalan, and T-Kay Sangwand, ‘Critical Archival Studies: An Introduction’, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1, no. 2 (2017), 1–8: 6.