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SUMMARY:(P75) Unpacking the Asian Library. Histories of knowledge exchange and collecting from Asia to the West across decolonization
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DESCRIPTION:As a follow-up to earlier workshops held in 2019, and building 
 on a global, multi-sited academic and¨librarian’s research network expandin
 g in their wake, this double panel focuses on the collecting histories, and
  knowledge networks in Asia, and between Asia and the West, and on the (epi
 stemic) violence and shifting power relations they reflect, that helped sha
 ping the so-called ‘Asian Library’ worldwide across decolonization. We emph
 atically scrutinize these histories from an Asia- and/or\nSouth-centred per
 spective. While the ‘treasures’ kept in Asian libraries worldwide rank as e
 xpressions of ‘enlightened’ collecting, and as keys to understanding the wi
 der world, they also entail colonial violence, and networks of collecting b
 ased in the South, and thus multiple forms of knowledge, agency, exchange a
 nd production ‘outside’ the text we get access to when we enter these libra
 ries. The question is how, why so, and for whom (not)? This question has be
 come all the more topical in the light of the fierce public debates revivin
 g in the past five years on decolonizing museums and academic institutes, o
 n ‘repatriation’ (or ‘restitutions’) of ‘colonial’ artefacts (whether loote
 d or acquired in structural unequal relations), also leading to initiatives
  to conduct and expand provenance research to this aim. Partly engaging wit
 h this debate, this panel also provides insight into how questions of ‘repa
 triation’ (implying a clear ‘Patria’ or original owner) also can simplify t
 he complex, multi-layered practices and forms of knowledge exchange that sh
 aped the content of Asian Libraries.\nWith books, manuscripts and visual ma
 terial therefore not only considered for their content, but primarily as ‘o
 bjects’, this panel aims, for the nineteenth and twentieth century, to gain
  insight in the ‘Asian’ agency behind the makings of these collections. For
  this we will explore forms of knowledge and knowledge exchange at the leve
 ls of production, collecting, translation, travelling, inventorizing and st
 oring, in the context of colonial relationships, decolonization, and inter-
 colonial, transnational, and inter-Asian networks.
URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/unpacking-the-asian-library-histories-of-knowledge-exchange-and-collecting-from-asia-to-the-west-across-decolonization
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