Riley Linebaugh, who does the past belong to?

Along the case of Kenya’s “Migrated Archives” Dr. Riley Linebaugh illustrates how questions of archival custody shape justice, memory, and public life, how they relate to W. E. B. Du Bois’ “colour line” and why archival accessibility is a vital asset for democracy.

Riley is a historian and archivist at the University of Potsdam. She has worked extensively on the history of British colonial archives and the relationship between the colonial past and transnational justice.