(Source: Routledge)
Routledge is publishing a new
book on archival social justice and impact.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Archives, Recordkeeping, and
Social Justice expands the burgeoning literature on archival social
justice and impact. Illuminating how diverse factors shape the relationship
between archives, recordkeeping systems, and recordkeepers, this book depicts
struggles for different social justice objectives.
Discussions and debates about
social justice are playing out across many disciplines, fields of practice,
societal sectors, and governments, and yet one dimension cross-cutting these
actors and engagement spaces has remained unexplored: the role of recordkeeping
and archiving. To clarify and elaborate this connection, this volume provides a
rigorous account of the engagement of archives and records—and their keepers—in
struggles for social justice. Drawing upon multidisciplinary praxis and
scholarship, contributors to the volume examine social justice from historical
and contemporary perspectives and promote impact methodologies that align with
culturally responsive, democratic, Indigenous, and transformative assessment.
Underscoring the multiplicity of transformative social justice impacts
influenced by recordmaking, recordkeeping, and archiving, the book presents
nine case studies from around the world that link the past to the present and
offer pathways towards a more just future.
Archives, Recordkeeping, and
Social Justice will be an essential reading for researchers and
students engaged in the study of archives, truth and reconciliation processes,
social justice, and human rights. It should also be of great interest to
archivists, records managers, and information professionals.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
David A. Wallace is
Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Information, University of
Michigan. He is editor of “Archives and the Ethics of Memory Construction”
(2011); co-editor of Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and
Records in Modern Society (2002); and series technical editor for 12
volumes of the National Security Archive’s The Making of U.S. Policy series
(1989–1992).
Wendy M. Duff is a
Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Her
most recent research has focused on the emotional responses to archives.
Recently, she has conducted impact studies of two different community
archives, the Ontario Jewish Archives and the Living Archives on Eugenics in
Western Canada.
Renée Saucier is an
Archivist at the Archives of Ontario and a volunteer at The ArQuives: Canada’s
LGBTQ2+ Archives. She has a graduate degree in information studies with a
specialisation in archives and records management. Her paper “Medical
Cartography in Ontario, 1890–1920” won the Association of Canadian Archivists’
Gordon Dodds Prize.
Andrew Flinn is a
Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History at University College London, a
member of the UK Community Archives and Heritage Group and author of a number
of papers relating to community-led and counter archives, including “Working
with the past: making history of struggle part of the struggle” in Reflections
on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements (eds Aziz & Vally,
2018).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 1
Chapter 1: Introduction to Archives,
Recordkeeping and Social Justice
Renée Saucier and David A.
Wallace
Chapter 2: Defining the
Relationship between Archives and Social Justice
David A. Wallace
Chapter 3: Methodologies for
Archival Impact Studies
Wendy M. Duff and Michelle
Caswell
Section 2
Preface to Section Two:
Categorizations and Patterns in the Case Studies
Renée Saucier
Chapter 4: Archives, Records, and
Land Restitution in South Africa
Anthea Josias
Chapter 5: "Hang Onto These
Words:" Aboriginal Title and the Social Meanings of Archival Custody
Raymond Frogner
Chapter 6: "All I Want To
Know Is Who I Am": Archival Justice for Australian Care Leavers
Joanne Evans, Frank Golding,
Cate O’Neill, Rachel Tropea
Chapter 7: Justice for the 96!:
The Impact of Archives in the Fight for Justice for the 96 Victims of the
Hillsborough Disaster
Andrew Flinn and Wendy M. Duff
Chapter 8: Social Justice and
Historical Accountability in Latin America: Access to the Records of the Truth
Commissions in Chile
Joel A. Blanco-Rivera
Chapter 9: Documenting the Fight
for the City: The Impact of Activist Archives on Anti-Gentrification Campaigns
Susan Pell
Chapter 10: Social Justice
Struggles for Rights, Equality and Identity: The Role of Lesbian and Gay
Archives
Rebecka Taves Sheffield
Chapter 11: Social Justice and
Hearing Voices: Co-Constructing an Archive of Mental Health Recovery
Anna Sexton, Stuart
Baker-Brown, Peter Bullimore, Dolly Sen and Andrew Voyce
Chapter 12: Archives "Act
Back": Re-configuring Palestinian Archival Constellations and Visions of
Social Justice
Beverley Butler
Chapter 13: Conclusion
David A. Wallace, Wendy M.
Duff and Andrew Flinn
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