Archival Silences: Missing, Lost And, Uncreated Archives

ISBN-13: 9780367431891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str.

Michael Moss; David Thomas

Opis

Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Theorising the Silences; 2. What are silences: the Australian example; 3. Silent contemporary records: access to the archives of Special Investigation Commission in Iceland, 2010-2019; 4. Noises in the Archives: Acknowledging the Present Yet Silenced Presence in Caribbean Archival Memory; 5. Silenced and Unsilenced Memories: Archival Fonds of Brazil’s Political Police, 1964-1985; 6. Uncovering Archival Silences Through Photographs and Listening: Envisioning Archives as a Democratic Space; 7. Silences in Malawi’s Archives; 8. Perceived Silence in the Turkish Archives: from the Ottoman Empire to Modern Republic; 9. Silenced Archives and Archived Voices: Archival Resources for a History of Post-Independence India; 10. The Voices of Children and Adolescents in the Archives; 11. Diaries and Silence; 12. Filling the Gaps; Afterword: Tales from the Sometimes ‘Silent’ Archives