Artefacts of Resistance: Creating Archives of Transnational Protest Movements
A DPU Dialogues in Development event to launch the project "Artefacts of Resistance: Creating Archives of Transnational Protest Movements" commissioned by Imagining Future grant and in collaboration with Kings College London and the Royal Academy of Arts

Recent resistance movements across the globe highlight spatial occupation as an important praxis to exert right to the city. However, neoliberal and nationalist states increasingly criminalise rights of assembly and expression and coercively stifle dissent.
At this juncture, the project seeks to explore how archives can become an oeuvre of solidarity for local(ised) acts of resistance against global(ised) forms of oppression?
The project team will give an overview of our project and will showcase some of the artistic collaborations made as part of the project.
The event will be followed by a drinks reception from 18:00pm
Speakers
Dr Raktim Ray (Development Planning Unit, UCL) and
Dr Srilata Sircar (India Institute, King's College London)
Welcome note and summary
Mukul Patel (Royal College of Art, emergence.is)
Architecture of Archiving
Dr Ufaque Paiker (Ashoka University):
Muslim Women on Street: Redefining Gender and Islam
Dr Kalpana Wilson (Department of Geography, Birkbeck)
International Development, Racialised Diasporas and Radical Solidarities
Dr David Featherstone (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow) Trade Unions and Spaces of Democratisation in Britain, the Caribbean and Greece
Manu Luksch (Royal College of Art) Performing Visibility and Anonymity