Issue 4. The Archive

At first glance, the notion of archive might refer to a simple repository: shelves of documents, folders labeled and boxed, digital files. But behind those images lies something far more vital and contested — the archive as a battleground for memory, history, power and truth. In wartime, people lose archives but they can create others, even profusely.

Our September 2025 issue explores the archive not merely as a place where the past is kept, but as a living instrument of agency, resistance, and accountability. Across different geographies and historical moments, archives emerge as fragile yet potent structures through which people assert the right to remember, and to be acknowledged.