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Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work

Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work

Caswell, Michelle

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Archives

General ReferenceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032000279
ISBN13: 9781032000275
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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