Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780198829324 |
| ISBN10: | 0198829329 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 544 pages |
| Size: | 255x178x35 mm |
| Weight: | 1120 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 55 Illustrations |
| 603 |
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Archives
Power, Truth, and Fiction
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 14 December 2023
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Short description:
Archives have never been more complex, expansive, or ubiquitous. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction is an indispensable research and reference book: a hugely helpful guide to archives in the twenty-first century. Material discussed ranges from medieval manuscripts to born-digital archival content, and art objects to state papers.
Long description:
Chapter 23 is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license and is free to read or download from Oxford Academic.
Archives have never been more complex, expansive, or ubiquitous. Gargantuan in scale and conception yet never sufficient or complete, the archive is on the one hand a space for empowerment and expression and on the other an instrument of constraint and repression. The way in which the archive is structured, made available, and developed plays a central role in how societies define their values and ethics. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction is a wide-ranging and innovative volume which highlights the vibrancy and urgency of the field by bringing together contributors from many different disciplines and backgrounds, including archivists, historians, literary scholars, digital researchers, and creative practitioners.
The archive of the twenty-first century is a fluid and multi-vocal space that challenges at every point the hegemonic and positivistic assumptions which shaped traditional ideas of the archive. The massive growth of digital archives further complicates the picture. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction is designed to help the reader draw threads through the rapidly changing and shifting multiverse of archives. The interdisciplinary and international contributors use a wide range of examples, from the Middle Ages to the Windrush scandal, to unsettle preconceptions, encourage debate, and draw out issues generated by the perpetual motion of the archive.
This volume is an asset to the study of archives, providing an important update for both the present and the recent past.
Archives have never been more complex, expansive, or ubiquitous. Gargantuan in scale and conception yet never sufficient or complete, the archive is on the one hand a space for empowerment and expression and on the other an instrument of constraint and repression. The way in which the archive is structured, made available, and developed plays a central role in how societies define their values and ethics. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction is a wide-ranging and innovative volume which highlights the vibrancy and urgency of the field by bringing together contributors from many different disciplines and backgrounds, including archivists, historians, literary scholars, digital researchers, and creative practitioners.
The archive of the twenty-first century is a fluid and multi-vocal space that challenges at every point the hegemonic and positivistic assumptions which shaped traditional ideas of the archive. The massive growth of digital archives further complicates the picture. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction is designed to help the reader draw threads through the rapidly changing and shifting multiverse of archives. The interdisciplinary and international contributors use a wide range of examples, from the Middle Ages to the Windrush scandal, to unsettle preconceptions, encourage debate, and draw out issues generated by the perpetual motion of the archive.
This volume is an asset to the study of archives, providing an important update for both the present and the recent past.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Editorial Policy
Notes on Contributors
Foreword by Carolyn Steedman
Introduction by Andrew Prescott and Alison Wiggins
I. Conceptions
'The Archive' is Not An Archives: Acknowledging the Intellectual Contribution of Archival Studies
Where and What are the Boundaries of the Archive?
Digitality and Reconfiguring Global Archive(s) of Forced Migration
The Record as Command
New Memory and The Archive
Response to Conceptions
II. Frameworks
Appraisal and Original Order: The Power Structures of the Archive
Archival Education and Professionalism
Metadata
Networks
Authenticating and Evaluating Evidence
More Content, Less Context: Rethinking Access
Response to Frameworks
III. Materialities
The Materiality of Written Textual Forms
Sound and Vision: The Audio-Visual Archive
Doors Into the Archives: Material Objects and Document Collections
Archives, Art, and the Performativity of Practice
Digital Innovation and Archival Thinking
Response to Materialities
IV. Encounters & Evolution
The Agency of Archivers
State Power and the Shaping of Archives in Malawi
Archival Impulses and the Gunpowder Plot
Accidentally on Purpose: Denying Any Responsibility for the Accidental Archive
Response to Encounters & Evolution
V. Narrators
From Repositories of Failure to Archives of Abolition
Writer-Editors Making the Haitian and Caribbean Archives Talk
Finding Women in the Archives of 1381
On Family History and Archives
An Artist Unpacks the Archives
Response to Narrators
VI. Erasures & Exclusion
America's Scrapbook: A Reckoning in the Archives
Irreconcilable Archives: Queer Collections and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Destruction and Displacement: The 2003 War and the Struggle for Iraq's Records
Of Bonfires, Mindsets, and Policies: The Multi-Causal Matrix of Silence in Ghanaian Public Archives
Response to Erasures & Exclusion
Afterword by Verne Harris
Index
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Editorial Policy
Notes on Contributors
Foreword by Carolyn Steedman
Introduction by Andrew Prescott and Alison Wiggins
I. Conceptions
'The Archive' is Not An Archives: Acknowledging the Intellectual Contribution of Archival Studies
Where and What are the Boundaries of the Archive?
Digitality and Reconfiguring Global Archive(s) of Forced Migration
The Record as Command
New Memory and The Archive
Response to Conceptions
II. Frameworks
Appraisal and Original Order: The Power Structures of the Archive
Archival Education and Professionalism
Metadata
Networks
Authenticating and Evaluating Evidence
More Content, Less Context: Rethinking Access
Response to Frameworks
III. Materialities
The Materiality of Written Textual Forms
Sound and Vision: The Audio-Visual Archive
Doors Into the Archives: Material Objects and Document Collections
Archives, Art, and the Performativity of Practice
Digital Innovation and Archival Thinking
Response to Materialities
IV. Encounters & Evolution
The Agency of Archivers
State Power and the Shaping of Archives in Malawi
Archival Impulses and the Gunpowder Plot
Accidentally on Purpose: Denying Any Responsibility for the Accidental Archive
Response to Encounters & Evolution
V. Narrators
From Repositories of Failure to Archives of Abolition
Writer-Editors Making the Haitian and Caribbean Archives Talk
Finding Women in the Archives of 1381
On Family History and Archives
An Artist Unpacks the Archives
Response to Narrators
VI. Erasures & Exclusion
America's Scrapbook: A Reckoning in the Archives
Irreconcilable Archives: Queer Collections and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Destruction and Displacement: The 2003 War and the Struggle for Iraq's Records
Of Bonfires, Mindsets, and Policies: The Multi-Causal Matrix of Silence in Ghanaian Public Archives
Response to Erasures & Exclusion
Afterword by Verne Harris
Index
