00000nam a22000008i 4500 UP-1685936960461356104 Buklod 20240321153155.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 240321s2021 enk b 001 0 eng 9780367427276 21829489 LC DLS rda eng CD 3021 C37 2021 Caswell, Michelle author. Urgent archives enacting liberatory memory work Michelle Caswell. Enacting liberatory memory work Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge 2021. xii, 129 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Routledge studies in archives 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. South Asian American Digital Archive. South Asian Americans Archives. Archives Political aspects United States. Archives Social aspects United States. Archivists United States Training of. Minorities United States Archives. Sexual minorities United States Archives. https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/03d056c6-2732-4f94-8890-dd244eb0cd61/external_content.pdf FO UPD DLS CD 3021 C37 2021 Book