{"type":"video","version":"1.0","html":"<iframe src=\"https://www.loom.com/embed/0ffbd540ee3d431787cffa35a4aee4be\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1246\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>","height":1246,"width":1662,"provider_name":"Loom","provider_url":"https://www.loom.com","thumbnail_height":1246,"thumbnail_width":1662,"thumbnail_url":"https://cdn.loom.com/sessions/thumbnails/0ffbd540ee3d431787cffa35a4aee4be-0752f55a4352bff8.gif","duration":1471.52,"title":"The dead’s knowledge-making in archives","description":"In this video presentation, I explore the waqf alongside Islamic ownership ethics of trusteeship and the continuity of personhood after death to inform my archiving practices within secular infrastructure. I do so as a Muslim scholar to situate my archiving according to my belief and my participants, and to bridge the gap in open science’s promotion of knowledge sustainability without sufficient ethical concerns. At the same time, contemporary possessive ‘data ideology’ stands in the way of the inclusive access promoted in open science. I learn from the waqf’s inclusivity and its enabling knowledge to thrive and endure in the medieval Islamic world, grounded in a relation with the physical world as an amanah [trust] with a divine presence, and a concept of sustainability linked with Islamic cosmology of personhood continuity after death. The dead endower has agency through their continued world-making in waqf. I draw a parallel with archiving as a form of sustainable knowledge-making by the dead researcher. Based on fieldwork with Saudi Arabian waqf nazers [trustees] and other experts, I craft procedures for gaining long-term consent on ethical reuse beyond the lifetime of informants and setting terms of reuse for the collection’s future that may outlive me and my participants."}