Archive Books

Archive Books is a community of practitioners who collaborate across regions and socio-political environments, bound in their commitment to disrupt Eurocentric epistemologies. Their work is rooted in a sustained scrutiny of the role of languages, visual imagery and archives in the perpetration of the coloniality of knowledge. Archive Books’ impulse to publish stems from its desire to disseminate potentially subversive stories, creating fissures in dominant narratives, escaping accounts of history with a capital H and turning instead to the power of the fragment. They conceive of archives as sites, institutions, repositories of knowledge and power, systems of thought and violence, but also as counter-practices for collecting, preserving, sharing and organising experiences of resistance. Through a publishing practice grounded in collective, transdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations, Archive Books is invested in un-weaving repressive narratives and reclaiming the archive as a tool that no longer categorises but rather continuously un-fixes, de-archives and re-archives through non-hegemonic models.