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- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 129 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "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 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"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in archives
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in archives.
- Alternative Title
- Enacting liberatory memory work
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Archives.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : community archives : assimilation, integration, or resistance? -- A matter of time : archival temporalities -- Community archives interrupting time -- From representation to activation -- Imagining liberatory memory work -- Conclusion : liberation now!
- ISBN
- LCCN
- 2020053440
- 10.4324/9781003001355
- OCLC
- 1226913434
- Author
Caswell, Michelle, author.
- Title
Urgent archives : enacting liberatory memory work / Michelle Caswell.
- Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2021]
- Copyright Date
©2021
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Routledge studies in archives
Routledge studies in archives.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Biography
Michelle Caswell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the co-founder of the South Asian American Digital Archive.
- Source of description
online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 25, 2021).
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Print version: Caswell, Michelle. Urgent archives. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 9780367427276 (DLC) 2020053439 (OCoLC)1224162295
- Other Standard Identifier
10.4324/9781003001355 doi