This chapter argues that affect—grief, rage, humiliation, endurance—constitutes a critical archive through which histories of injustice are preserved, contested, and transmitted. Drawing on feminist, Black radical, and anti-colonial thought, particularly the work of Sara Ahmed, Audre Lorde, and Saidiya Hartman, it challenges the liberal relegation of emotion to the realm of the irrational or private. The chapter develops the concept of affective archives to theorise how emotions function not merely as responses to violence, but as modes of political knowledge that register structural harm, historical loss, and collective refusal. These archives emerge in testimony, silence, narrative fragments, and embodied memory—forms often excluded from institutional accounts of justice. Against liberal demands for dispassion, civility, and neutrality, the chapter advances listening as an ethical and methodological practice: one that takes affect seriously as theory, refuses epistemic hierarchy, and remains accountable to voices shaped by grief and struggle. In doing so, it repositions listening not as empathy or recognition, but as a form of political responsibility grounded in historical and structural attentiveness.