Resource Type: Publications

by Michelle Caswell2021, Routledge Press 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…

Using data collected through semi-structured interviews with disabled archival users, this article foregrounds disabled people’s relationships with time, specifi- cally to pasts and representations thereof in archival material. It illustrates the ways in which disabled people use their knowledge of how disability is understood—in archives and in society—to anticipate their erasure in archival material. First,…

In this article, I demonstrate how Qataris, in not seeing themselves or their communities reflected in these modern-day mainstream institutions, are actively engaging in community archiving activity. I maintain that community archiving activity is happening in Qatar (and other places in the Arabian, also known as Persian, Gulf) because of the estrangement the importation of…

Authors Eagle Yun, AudraTribbett, Krystal, Ph.D.Vo Dang, Thuy, Ph.D. et al. This chapter makes a case for critical engagement with ethnic studies and community-based archives through primary source instruction. The research project Transforming Knowledge/Transforming Libraries (TKTL) examined how libraries might become essential partners in providing ethnic studies students with the tools and language to present,…

Jamie Lee This article engages the archives as a space of multimodal truth telling that challenges the traditional understanding of archives as “autho- rized evidence.” This inquiry, specifically into oral history interviews produced for and within the archives, works to further disrupt the long-standing tradi- tional archival paradigm that advocates for a static and fixed…

This paper centers a three-year research project into community-based archives and the power of their naming practices. Expanding the idea of naming practices to further consider how the archives itself is defined and understood by the creators, donors, and communities that are represented therein, the co-authors consider the emergent focus on origin stories told about…

THE PRESERVATION AND PRODUCTION OF DIASPORIC KNOWLEDGE Oral History and Archival Contributions Thuy Vo Dang

This article provides background on community archiving as it relates to a group of faculty members currently working together to address the challenge of reimagining archival education to center non-dominant archival traditions and the restructuring of internship programs to provide financial compensation, by asking how MLIS programs might transform to better serve both minoritized communities…