The Bedoun Archive: A Public Archive Created for the Northern Tribes Bedouin of Kuwait
@article{KennedyNouralDeen2018TheBA, title={The Bedoun Archive: A Public Archive Created for the Northern Tribes Bedouin of Kuwait}, author={Susan Kennedy Nour al Deen}, journal={Education as Change}, year={2018} }
This article describes the creation of the Bedoun Archive at the Australian Data Archive, managed by the Australian National University. The Bedoun are a Bedouin minority comprising stateless members of the main tribes of Kuwait. They have been subjected to “Othering” in scholarly literature, indicative of both Orientalism and neo-Orientalism, approaches that have contributed to their oppression by the state and omission from the official histories of Kuwait and the academic literature. The…