Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work

ISBN-13: 9780367427276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 130 str.

Michelle Caswell

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Community Archives: Assimilation, Integration, or Resistance?;  1. A Matter of Time: Archival Temporalities;  2. Community Archives Interrupting Time;  3. From Representation to Activation;  4. Imagining Liberatory Memory Work;  Conclusion: Liberation Now!

O autorze

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.