03447nam 2200577 450 991072724800332120231110232258.01-00-300135-11-003-00135-11-000-38602-310.4324/9781003001355(CKB)4100000011920715(MiAaPQ)EBC6587276(Au-PeEL)EBL6587276(OCoLC)1250078019(ScCtBLL)02ba4fa3-c231-4c4f-bc31-41fe91eb14df(EXLCZ)99410000001192071520220113d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUrgent archives enacting liberatory memory work /Michelle Caswell1 ed.Oxford, England ;New York, New York :Routledge,[2021]©20211 online resource (142 pages)Routledge Studies in Archives 0-367-42727-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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!"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"--Provided by publisher.Routledge Studies in Archives ArchivistsUnited StatesTraining ofArchivesSocial aspectsUnited StatesArchivesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesSouth Asian AmericansArchivesArchivistsTraining of.ArchivesSocial aspectsArchivesPolitical aspectsSouth Asian Americans020.973Caswell Michelle1135101MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910727248003321Urgent archives3381598UNINA