Archival interventions: participatory research and public historical geographies

Bressey, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2014.07.001

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“…That the commons never did belong to the people, does not mean they should not” (McDonagh & Griffin, , p. 10). Bressey (, p. 102) sees her research and engagement work on the black presence in Britain as “part of a broader anti‐racist project that feeds into traditions of developing radical ‘histories from below’.” There are important lessons to be learned here from earlier incarnations of “history from below,” notably the History Workshop movement, which had some success in developing collaborative relationships between university‐based historians and a range of activists. The workshops “were devoted to the study and development of ‘history from below’ for use as a weapon in left‐wing political campaigns” (Davin & Parks, ).…”

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Historicising geographies of solidarity

Kelliher

2018

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This article evaluates two of the most productive recent areas of research in the historical geographies of solidarity: first, work relating to class and the labour movement; and second, debates clustered around race and colonialism. The two are, of course, not entirely distinct, and there has been much useful thinking at their intersections. I suggest that questions of mobility have been crucial in thinking about the formation of diverse solidarities across geographical and social boundaries. The article looks at how relationships can both be developed across differences of gender, race, and sexuality and how solidarities can be used to entrench forms of oppression and inequities of power. Thinking about this issue through the concept of intersectionality, I argue, would be a useful way of engaging with such questions. I suggest three areas which could be developed further. First, there is potential for a greater engagement with theoretical debates around the nature of solidarity itself. Second, historical geographers could pay more attention to the role of memory and “usable pasts.” Finally, I argue that more ambitious historical narratives, framed within wider social processes, would allow us to make broader arguments about how solidarity develops over time.

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Historicising geographies of solidarity

Kelliher

2018

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“…(Testimony #36, Cusco, 2015)The Quipu Project is a form of participatory research in a Latin American tradition reaching back to Orlando Fals Borda and Paulo Freire, which might be characterised as “public history”, “participatory historical geography” or another disciplinary innovation which has yet to be coined (cf. McIntyre :1–3, for the literature review; Bressey ; DeLyser ). It responds to the desire of activists and community leaders in Peru to document and record the experiences of those who were sterilised without their consent, and was developed in close collaboration with Peruvian partner organisations including Convenio IAMAMC‐AMHBA in Huancabamba and AMAEF‐C‐GTL in Cusco.…”

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Unconsented Sterilisation, Participatory Story‐Telling, and Digital Counter‐Memory in Peru

Brown

Tucker

2017

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This article aims to prompt reflection on the ways in which digital research methods can support or undermine participatory research. Building on our experiences of working on the Quipu Project (quipu-project.com), an interactive, multimedia documentary on unconsented sterilisation in Peru, it explores the ways in which digital technologies can enable participatory knowledge production across geographic, social and linguistic divides. It also considers the new forms of engagement between knowledgeproducers and audiences that digital methods can encourage. Digital technologies can, we contend, help build new spaces for, and modes of engagement with, participatory research, even in contexts such as the Peruvian Andes where digital technologies are not well established or commonly used. Doing so, we argue, entails responding sensitively to the social, linguistic and digital inequalities that shape specific research contexts, and centring the human relationships that are easily sacrificed at the altar of technological innovation. Resumen: Este artículo tiene por propósito impulsar la reflexión sobre como los métodos de investigación digitales pueden apoyar o menoscabar la investigación participativa. Construyendo desde nuestra experiencia de trabajo en el Proyecto Quipu (proyectoquipu.com), el artículo explora como las tecnologías digitales pueden facilitar la producción participativa de conocimiento a través de las divisiones geográficas, sociales y lingüísticas. También considera las nuevas formas de compromiso que los métodos digitales pueden promover entre los productores de conocimiento y los públicos. Insistimos en que las tecnologías digitales pueden abrir nuevos espacios para, y nuevos modos de compromiso con, la investigación participativa, incluso en contextos como los andes peruanos donde las tecnologías digitales no están bien establecidas ni son muy usadas. Argumentamos que hacer esto implica responder con sensibilidad a las inequidades sociales, lingüísticas y digitales que moldean los contextos de investigación específicos. También supone enfatizar en las relaciones humanas que se sacrifican fácilmente en el altar de la innovación tecnológica.

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“…Glasgow Museums, for example, have very little information about the banners they hold bar their accession information. This raises important questions not only about how a working‐class presence was asserted through past struggles, but also how such struggles might be presenced in particular public histories, museums and archives (Bressey ; Stanley ). This is particularly significant as the mainstream or formal archive sector under‐represents ‘the voices of the non‐elites, the grassroots, [and] the marginalized’ (Flinn , 152).…”

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Trade union banners and the construction of a working‐class presence: notes from two labour disputes in 1980s Glasgow and North Lanarkshire

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This paper draws on a project ‘Banner Tales of Glasgow’, which is the result of an ongoing collaboration between geographers, museum staff and trade unionists. The paper draws on testimonies from workers involved in two labour disputes in the mid 1980s. We use these testimonies to think about the use of banners in the construction of working‐class solidarities. This discussion is used to illuminate the relations between the formation of a working‐class presence and the role of discourses of a moral economy in shaping particular community‐making practices. Through doing so, we use a focus on banners to illuminate different aspects of the spatial practices of labour organising and argue that the construction of a working‐class presence and articulations of a moral economy can be mutually reinforcing.

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Archival interventions: participatory research and public historical geographies

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Historicising geographies of solidarity

Historicising geographies of solidarity

Unconsented Sterilisation, Participatory Story‐Telling, and Digital Counter‐Memory in Peru

Trade union banners and the construction of a working‐class presence: notes from two labour disputes in 1980s Glasgow and North Lanarkshire

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