Salguero Montaño, Óscar2026-03-182026-03-182026-03-16Salguero Montaño, Ó. (2026). El Museo de los Desplazados: An Anarchive as an Epistemic Practice of Urban Activism. Humans, 6(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/humans601001010.3390/humans6010010https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134097This article analyses the Museo de los Desplazados (Museum of the Displaced), a collaborative platform conceived by the Left Hand Rotation collective to foster shared reflection on gentrification processes. This project takes the form of a collective and decentralised digital archive, functioning as an open, ‘in-process’ collaborative tool. Within the context of the proliferation of self-organised digital archives, this study explores how the Museum acts as a dynamic social object that articulates dispersed narratives. Drawing on Derrida’s concept of the ‘anarchive’, the research validates the hypothesis that there is a direct relationship between the profiles of autonomous collectives and their specific epistemic practices. The findings reveal that activists utilise the archive as a tool for legal defence, ‘heat-of-the-moment’ ethnography, and networking, thereby resisting ‘archival violence’ and constructing collective counter-memory. Ultimately, the Museum demonstrates that memory is not a guarded site, but a living network built through horizontal and rhizomatic collaboration.engjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.3390/humans6010010https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/6/1/10open access39+572323.2/.3316.4archiveanarchivecounter-memorysocial movementsurban activismgentrificationartivismepistemic practicesAntropología (Sociología)Investigación socialMovimientos socialesArchivísticaDiseño de bibliotecas y archivos5103 Antropología Social2402.01 Archivos Antropológicos