{"id":22337,"date":"2022-05-13T10:17:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=22337"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:49:48","slug":"audra-diptee-asks-how-do-we-effectively-mobilize-historical-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2022\/audra-diptee-asks-how-do-we-effectively-mobilize-historical-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Audra Dipt\u00e9e asks &#8220;how do we effectively mobilize historical knowledge?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Audra-Diptee-2-smaller-size.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Audra-Diptee-2-smaller-size-240x320.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of Professor Audra Diptee in front of a painting\" class=\"wp-image-18603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Audra-Diptee-2-smaller-size-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Audra-Diptee-2-smaller-size-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Audra-Diptee-2-smaller-size-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Audra-Diptee-2-smaller-size-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Audra-Diptee-2-smaller-size-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Audra-Diptee-2-smaller-size.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is a short excerpt from Nick Ward&#8217;s article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/story\/reclaiming-the-caribbeans-historical-truth\/\">Reclaiming the Caribbean\u2019s Historical Truth: History Professor confronts distorted colonial narratives in textbooks and the classroom<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHistory may be about the past, but it is contested in the present, in a fight for a particular vision of the future,\u201d says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/audra-a-diptee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Audra Dipt\u00e9e<\/a>, Associate Professor in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of History<\/a>&nbsp;at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reclaim the historical truth of the Caribbean, Dipt\u00e9e\u2019s latest research project drags into public light a systematic scheme by white colonists to erase the violent records of British rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme, titled \u2018Operation Legacy\u2019, was executed by the British Colonial Office from the 1950s until the 1970s in an effort to save the British Government from embarrassment and incrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through Operation Legacy, government employees were instructed to destroy and hide official documents to ensure \u201cthat any histories that were written would serve them as they moved from a colonial power dynamic to a neocolonial power dynamic,\u201d explains Dipt\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result of this destructive action is a completely distorted historical narrative penned by the colonists \u2013 a fable wrought with colonial biases and self-interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOperation Legacy is one of those cases when you cannot help but say \u2018truth is stranger than fiction,\u2019\u201d says Dipt\u00e9e.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a short excerpt from Nick Ward&#8217;s article &#8220;Reclaiming the Caribbean\u2019s Historical Truth: History Professor confronts distorted colonial narratives in textbooks and the classroom.&#8221; \u201cHistory may be about the past, but it is contested in the present, in a fight for a particular vision of the future,\u201d says&nbsp;Audra Dipt\u00e9e, Associate Professor in the&nbsp;Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22338,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337\/revisions\/22338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}