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Record Nr.

UNINA9910727248003321

Autore

Caswell Michelle

Titolo

Urgent archives : enacting liberatory memory work / / Michelle Caswell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-00-300135-1

1-003-00135-1

1-000-38602-3

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 pages)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Archives

Disciplina

020.973

Soggetti

Archivists - United States - Training of

Archives - Social aspects - United States

Archives - Political aspects - United States

South Asian Americans

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Community Archives: Assimilation, Integration, or Resistance? -- A Matter of Time: Archival Temporalities -- Community Archives Interrupting Time -- From Representation to Activation -- Imagining Liberatory Memory Work -- Liberation Now!

Sommario/riassunto

"Urgent Archives argues that archivists can and should do more to disrupt white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy beyond the standard liberal archival solutions of more diverse collecting and more inclusive description. Grounded in the emerging field of critical archival studies, this book uncovers how dominant western archival theories and practices are oppressive by design, while looking toward the the radical politics of community archives to envision new liberatory theories and practices. Based on more than a decade of ethnography at community archives sites including the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA), the book explores how members of minoritized communities activate records to build solidarities across and within communities, trouble linear progress narratives, and disrupt cycles of oppression. Caswell explores the temporal, representational, and material aspects of liberatory memory work, arguing that archival disruptions in time



and space should be neither about the past nor the future, but about the liberatory affects and effects of memory work in the present. Urgent Archives extends the theoretical range of critical archival studies and provides a new framework for archivists looking to transform their practices. The book should also be of interest to scholars of archival studies, museum studies, public history, memory studies, gender and ethnic studies and digital humanities"--