{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4286464593","doi":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783304998.015","title":"Re-membering Kenya: Building Library Infrastructures as Decolonial Practice","display_name":"Re-membering Kenya: Building Library Infrastructures as Decolonial Practice","publication_year":2022,"publication_date":"2022-01-28","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4286464593","doi":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783304998.015"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.29085/9781783304998.015","doi":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783304998.015","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783304998.015","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Narrative Expansions","raw_type":"other"},"volume":{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4286464602","display_name":"Narrative Expansions"},"type":"other","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t53x9t6","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5060119436","display_name":"Syokau Mutonga","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9232-2626","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9232-2626"]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Syokau Mutonga","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5060363190","display_name":"Angela Okune","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2195-9865","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2195-9865"]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Angela Okune","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":null,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":3,"citation_normalized_percentile":null,"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"189","last_page":"212"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12289","display_name":"Library Science and Administration","score":0.2556000053882599,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3309","display_name":"Library and Information Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12289","display_name":"Library Science and Administration","score":0.2556000053882599,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3309","display_name":"Library and Information Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14380","display_name":"Libraries and Information Services","score":0.2093999981880188,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1209","display_name":"Museology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14123","display_name":"Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies","score":0.18330000340938568,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3314","display_name":"Anthropology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/kenya","display_name":"Kenya","score":0.4099999964237213},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/memory-and-forgetting","display_name":"memory and forgetting","score":0.5979999899864197},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/settler-colonialism","display_name":"settler colonialism","score":0.6729999780654907},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/library-infrastructure","display_name":"library infrastructure","score":0.4729999899864197},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/elephant-tusks","display_name":"elephant tusks","score":0.5180000066757202},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/material-culture","display_name":"material culture","score":0.4059999883174896}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780312720","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5689100","display_name":"Head (geology)","level":2,"score":0.4968409836292267},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C52119013","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50637","display_name":"Art history","level":1,"score":0.43022167682647705},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.39950501918792725},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C153349607","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36649","display_name":"Visual arts","level":1,"score":0.3847326636314392},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.37358587980270386},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C29595303","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165650","display_name":"Media studies","level":1,"score":0.3263263702392578},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.2991071939468384},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C114793014","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52109","display_name":"Geomorphology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127313418","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1069","display_name":"Geology","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.29085/9781783304998.015","doi":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783304998.015","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783304998.015","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Narrative Expansions","raw_type":"other"},{"id":"pmh:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1t53x9t6","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t53x9t6","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400115","display_name":"eScholarship (California Digital Library)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I2801248553","host_organization_name":"California Digital Library","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2801248553"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"chapter"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1t53x9t6","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t53x9t6","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400115","display_name":"eScholarship (California Digital Library)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I2801248553","host_organization_name":"California Digital Library","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2801248553"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"chapter"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":23,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W657248368","https://openalex.org/W1607820656","https://openalex.org/W1826372834","https://openalex.org/W1828058397","https://openalex.org/W2023847272","https://openalex.org/W2041381567","https://openalex.org/W2067595076","https://openalex.org/W2103940539","https://openalex.org/W2235980648","https://openalex.org/W2236185717","https://openalex.org/W2288907593","https://openalex.org/W2353949686","https://openalex.org/W2497128987","https://openalex.org/W2577480018","https://openalex.org/W2945465258","https://openalex.org/W2961305043","https://openalex.org/W3020221414","https://openalex.org/W3020580484","https://openalex.org/W3032902188","https://openalex.org/W3099555618","https://openalex.org/W3132893951","https://openalex.org/W3186672373","https://openalex.org/W4241022519"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4293118657","https://openalex.org/W4283166771","https://openalex.org/W7213374337","https://openalex.org/W4366326983","https://openalex.org/W4281394204","https://openalex.org/W7118237722","https://openalex.org/W4225151175","https://openalex.org/W2971413279","https://openalex.org/W7151384888","https://openalex.org/W4231384902"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Introduction":[0],"\u2018What":[1],"are":[2,255,323,344,360],"you":[3],"going":[4],"to":[5,26,33,63,95,117,143,166,176,193,237,260,264,268,271,284,313,329],"do":[6,118,272,314],"with":[7,119,157,168,257,273,315],"the":[8,53,64,76,109,130,183,206,209,231,253,274,288,330,350,356],"lion's":[9,29,48,136,180,210,222,318],"head?\u2019":[10],"I,":[11],"Angela":[12],"Okune":[13],"(AO)":[14],"asked":[15],"Syokau":[16],"Mutonga":[17],"(SM),":[18],"teasingly":[19],"but":[20],"genuinely":[21],"curious.":[22],"I":[23,151],"was":[24,122,197,224,295],"referring":[25],"a":[27,72,134,146,154,178,227,296,316,324],"stuffed":[28],"head":[30,49,137,181,211,223],"which":[31],"seemed":[32],"have":[34],"become":[35],"somewhat":[36],"of":[37,102,133,208,226,278,291,299,349,363],"an":[38],"infamous":[39],"McMillan":[40,65,234,309],"Library":[41,66,357],"mascot":[42],"among":[43],"those":[44],"who":[45,282],"visited.":[46],"The":[47,99,221],"(Figure":[50],"13.1":[51],"on":[52,153,241],"next":[54],"page)":[55],"caught":[56],"my":[57,60,158,195],"eye":[58],"during":[59],"first":[61],"visit":[62],"in":[67,161,246,266],"February":[68],"2019;":[69],"left":[70],"atop":[71],"dusty":[73],"table":[74],"outside":[75],"second-floor":[77],"Africana":[78],"library,":[79,184],"it":[80,87,97,105,120,185],"looked":[81],"as":[82,107,127,129,347],"if":[83,108],"someone":[84],"had":[85,92,189],"tossed":[86],"there":[88],"years":[89],"ago":[90],"and":[91,111,243,249,262,334,359,366,369],"not":[93,236],"bothered":[94],"move":[96],"since.":[98],"clear":[100],"lack":[101],"regard":[103],"for":[104,141,201,217,302,327,339],"\u2013":[106,121,258,332,337],"librarians":[110],"library":[112,331,341],"staff":[113,232],"didn't":[114],"know":[115],"what":[116,124,259,263],"perhaps":[123],"struck":[125],"me":[126,169,200,218],"much":[128],"very":[131],"materiality":[132],"decaying":[135,317],"just":[138],"laid":[139],"out":[140],"anyone":[142],"touch.":[144],"But":[145,205],"few":[147],"weeks":[148],"later,":[149],"when":[150,293],"returned":[152],"sleepy":[155],"Saturday":[156],"four-year-old":[159],"son":[160,196],"tow,":[162],"having":[163],"enticed":[164],"him":[165,172],"come":[167],"by":[170],"telling":[171],"he":[173],"would":[174],"get":[175],"see":[177],"real":[179],"at":[182,199,233,287],"wasn't":[186],"there.":[187],"It":[188],"been":[190],"moved.":[191],"Needless":[192],"say,":[194],"mad":[198],"making":[202],"false":[203],"promises.":[204],"removal":[207],"from":[212],"public":[213],"view":[214],"also":[215],"flagged":[216],"its":[219],"paradox.":[220],"illustrative":[225],"double":[228],"bind":[229],"that":[230],"Library,":[235],"mention":[238],"others":[239],"working":[240],"reviving":[242],"establishing":[244],"libraries":[245],"diverse":[247],"postcolonial":[248],"settler-colonial":[250],"sites":[251],"around":[252],"world,":[254],"grappling":[256],"remember":[261],"forget":[265],"attempts":[267],"decolonise.":[269],"What":[270,312],"massive":[275],"ivory":[276],"tusks":[277],"some":[279],"poor":[280],"elephant":[281],"happened":[283],"be":[285],"living":[286],"wrong":[289],"period":[290],"time,":[292],"Kenya":[294],"colonial":[297,365],"site":[298],"hunting":[300],"expeditions":[301],"White":[303],"foreigners,":[304],"like":[305],"Sir":[306],"William":[307],"Northrup":[308],"(Box":[310],"13.1)?":[311],"head?":[319],"These":[320],"charismatic":[321],"items":[322],"strange":[325],"delight":[326],"tourists":[328],"Kenyans":[333],"non-Kenyans":[335],"alike":[336],"although":[338],"regular":[340],"users":[342],"they":[343],"quickly":[345],"normalised":[346],"part":[348],"Library's":[351],"environment.":[352],"Such":[353],"artefacts":[354],"give":[355],"\u2018character\u2019":[358],"material":[361],"reminders":[362],"Kenya's":[364],"imperial":[367],"past":[368],"present.":[370]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-10T09:11:00.788812","created_date":"2022-07-22T00:00:00"}