Co-producing archival research with communication, reflexivity and friendship: crossing the three-wire bridge

Battley, Belinda

doi:10.1007/s10502-017-9279-y

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“…I have written extensively elsewhere on the methodology used. 24 Creating, managing, using & sharing embodied records in a community context My research considered the relationships between collective memory and recordkeeping in the AUTC. 25 The image below (Figure 1) shows a whole lot of recordkeeping processes happening in a tramping club context.…”

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Authenticity in places of belonging: community collective memory as a complex, adaptive recordkeeping system

Battley

2019

Archives and Manuscripts

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As archivists, we aim to preserve community records for the future, putting them in boxes in secure repositories to save them from the damaging effects of everyday wear and tear. However, recent research shows a community itself acts as a complex, adaptive recordkeeping system that maintains records through networks that include personal relationships, cultural practices, stories, embodied knowledge, repeated events and special places. Removing records from communities without taking these elements into account assumes our recordkeeping methods are superior to the community's existing systems, constructs barriers between the community and its records, and removes much of the records' context.

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Section: A Brief Note On Research Questions Design and Methodologymentioning

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Authenticity in places of belonging: community collective memory as a complex, adaptive recordkeeping system

Battley

2019

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“…In her discussion of friendships made whilst in the field, Ponocná [38] judges this phenomenon as unproblematic when considered through a feminist framework where participants are invited into the researcher's world. Indeed, there are multiple accounts within ethnography where such a boundary between scholar and practitioner both overlaps and merges (see [39,40]). Over the years, Kirsten has attended weddings and even funerals of community members as well as hosting individuals in her own home.…”

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Notes from the Field of the Scholar–Practitioner: Inhabiting the Liminal Space between Research and Practice—A Reflective Account of Holding Dual Identities

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Attfield

2024

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Kirsten and Kate are scholar–practitioners studying the people with whom they interact and operate. In this empirical paper, based on their auto/ethnographic reflections, they study some often-neglected circumstances and by-products of scholar–practitioner research. They review aspects of entering research situations with which they are connected, participating in them, leaving them behind, and revisiting them. Kirsten is an ethnographer, both working with and studying intentional communities. Kate is a qualitative researcher who operates auto/ethnographically in studying Triple X unintentional communities. This article arises from discussions of Kirsten’s and Kate’s field notes, which have led them to compare and relate their convergent experiences with one another. Kirsten and Kate focus on the physical culture of the environments in which they study. Some traditional boundaries like the isolation of researchers and communities are eroding. Kirsten and Kate care about those they study and continue to hold some responsibility for the lives of people they have entered. They attempt to narrow the space between theory and practice in recognising their interconnected nature. Civic mission is gaining increased currency for researchers and may form a signpost towards the future of research.

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“…This research adopts the critical approach used by Evans et al ( 2015 ) in their exploration of archival activism, and Battley ( 2017 ) in her investigation of community recordkeeping. It uses the three interconnected elements of critical research identified by Alvessoon and Deetz ( 2000 ) of insight, critique, and transformative redefinition; in this context to understand the radical recordkeeping practices and appraisal needs of an animal activist organization.…”

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Radical appraisal in support of archival autonomy for animal rights activism

2021

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Co-producing archival research with communication, reflexivity and friendship: crossing the three-wire bridge

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Authenticity in places of belonging: community collective memory as a complex, adaptive recordkeeping system

Authenticity in places of belonging: community collective memory as a complex, adaptive recordkeeping system

Notes from the Field of the Scholar–Practitioner: Inhabiting the Liminal Space between Research and Practice—A Reflective Account of Holding Dual Identities

Radical appraisal in support of archival autonomy for animal rights activism

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