Autoarchaeology at Christiansborg Castle (Ghana): Decolonizing knowledge, pedagogy, and practice

Engmann, Rachel Ama Asaa

doi:10.1080/20518196.2019.1633780

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“…In 2017, Katrina presented the sole autoethnographic paper on an ASA panel (later published as Thompson 2018), after which an audience member asked all the panelists to address the issues Katrina had raised about positionality, secrecy, and loss in the field in relation to their research; a lively discussion ensued. The following year, three autoethnographic papers were featured in a panel of fieldwork reflections that was well attended and well received (Engmann 2018;Reed 2018;Shinn & LaRocco 2018). In addition, Africanist historian Kathleen Sheldon (2019) has written a monograph about her experience living in Mozambique during her fieldwork for which she is currently seeking a publisher.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography

Mara¹,

Thompson²

2022

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Autoethnography—a methodology that foregrounds personal experience both during research and in writing about it—is a useful keyword for scholars working in Africa and the diaspora. Mara and Thompson argue that by exploring new forms of writing and engaging in critical self-reflexivity regarding (shifting) positionalities, autoethnography—particularly collaborative approaches—is vital to ongoing efforts to decolonize African Studies. Mara and Thompson propose changes necessary for the development of Africanist autoethnography as a Keyword, and some hopeful indicators that these changes are already underway, including a small but growing body of Africanist autoethnographic work.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography

Mara¹,

Thompson²

2022

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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“…After learning from a family member that the name of one of her Danish ancestors, Carl Engmann, was carved on the wall of Christiansborg Castle in Osu, Ghana, Engmann (2019) began a critical-creative research project where she uniquely combined autoethnography and decolonial research epistemologies as autoarchaeology to excavate and recover her family's history. Engmann (2019) writes that, "Autoarchaeology… is an analytical approach whereby the roles and subject positions of researcher, practitioner, and descendant are held by the same person, and foreground the Self" (p. 204). Autoarchaeology is an effective way to engage in personal and meaningful research pursuits that are multifaceted in their nature.…”

Section: Autoarchaeologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on The Remember Me Project: Queen’s University’s Black Past and the AfroWomanist Sankofa Archive to Our Future

Peprah-Asare

2023

JCRI

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How does one endeavour to recover history that has been intentionally hidden, erased, and forgotten? In what ways can the ethics of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) be applied within archival processes? In this article, I highlight the work I recently completed under the supervision of the Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigeneity (EDII) at Queen’s University as an “Afrofuturist” Graduate Research Fellow in a project titled The Remember Me Project: Black Historic Lives and Our Future(s) at Queen’s University. I focus on one poem from my collection titled, “Alfie or Did I Really Do Alright?” I problematize the now infamous figure of Alfred “Alfie” Pierce, a Black male employee of Queen’s Athletics department to problematize the ways Black stories are forgotten, lost, and devalued within academic institutions. In simultaneously speaking back to the politics of whose stories are worthy of remembrance at Queen’s, the horrors of “Alfie’s” story, and the difficulties involved in Black archival recovery, I introduce my intervention “the AfroWomanist Sankofa Archive” as an interdisciplinary framework constructed as a guideline for African-heritage peoples to utilize while navigating dis-empowering research material involving African archival information. I end with some recommendations for our Afrofuture.

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“…While methods become increasingly interdisciplinary, theoretical work around the archaeology of the African Diaspora continues to evolve. Most pressingly, historical archaeologists have pursued decolonizing (Engmann 2019;Gonzalez-Tennant 2014) and anti-racist archaeological practices (Carey 2019;Franklin et al 2020;Minkoff et al forthcoming;Mullins 2008).…”

Section: Community Archaeology Of the African Diaspora: Conventional Or Revolutionary?mentioning

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Introduction: Current Directions in Community Archaeology of the African Diaspora

Westmont

Clay

2021

Int J Histor Archaeol

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This article introduces the special issue, "Community Archaeology of the African Diaspora." This collection of papers grew out of a session at the 2020 Society for Historical Archaeology conference in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional authors invited to add further geographical and methodological diversity. The papers in this issue address a single question-how are archaeologists currently involved with community archaeology projects related to the African Diaspora?-and reflects the wide array of approaches currently being implemented across the discipline.

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Autoarchaeology at Christiansborg Castle (Ghana): Decolonizing knowledge, pedagogy, and practice

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography

African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography

Reflections on The Remember Me Project: Queen’s University’s Black Past and the AfroWomanist Sankofa Archive to Our Future

Introduction: Current Directions in Community Archaeology of the African Diaspora

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