“Displaced archives”: proposing a research agenda

Lowry, James

doi:10.1007/s10502-019-09326-8

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“…For example, Grimsted (1992) and Winn (2015) have identified, as major barriers to accessing displaced archives, the absence of access tools, physical distance, and the language burden. Indeed, the absence of finding aids (O'Neill 1979) or their descriptive (Grimsted 1971;1991a;Cox 2010;Namhila 2004) or provisional (Yeo 2009) inaccuracy can have negative consequences for dispossessed communities, such as settling cases in court on grounds of human rights violations (Anderson 2011;Badger 2012;Lowry 2019b;Banton 2012a).…”

Section: Retaliationmentioning

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Information Representation in Displaced Archives: A Meta-Synthesis

Macedo¹,

Silva²,

Freitas³

2022

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This paper aims to perform a qualitative synthesis of literature concerning the representation of information in displaced archives. Methodologically, this communication is configured in a metasynthesis oriented to theory building, constituting a non-reactive, documentary-based and exploratory type of study, focused on articles and books chapters published in English between 1954 and 2019. The collection of texts is supported by the SPICE strategy, applied to the search in databases (WoS and EBSCO). We adopted content analysis according to the assumptions of Charmaz and Finfgeld-Connett. Of the 443 records, 155 texts that responded to the research purposes were included. Three themes emerged from the content analysis around the aforementioned theme with a view to theory building: “anarchivism as (non-) representation”, “archive of the archive”, and “archival canon”. Finally, displaced archives constitute an emerging theme in several domains, so it is important to explore the complex nature of this phenomenon from the point of view of representation and knowledge organization.

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Section: Retaliationmentioning

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Information Representation in Displaced Archives: A Meta-Synthesis

Macedo¹,

Silva²,

Freitas³

2022

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“…This work is being translated into French and a second volume of Displaced Archives is currently underway. Mnjama's contribution on this genre of archives needs to be acknowledged when one considers that the Global North is dominating the writings on this subject of archival displacement (Lowry 2019). If one looks at the composition of contributors in the displaced archives book, there are very few from the Global South; hence, Mnjama deserves special recognition in this regard (Lowry 2019).…”

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“…Mnjama's contribution on this genre of archives needs to be acknowledged when one considers that the Global North is dominating the writings on this subject of archival displacement (Lowry 2019). If one looks at the composition of contributors in the displaced archives book, there are very few from the Global South; hence, Mnjama deserves special recognition in this regard (Lowry 2019). From this perspective, Africa's voice from a victim and an archival point of view needs to be heard to free ourselves from the dominant Eurocentric archival epistemology believed to produce 'legitimate' knowledge.…”

Section: The Work Of Mnjama On Migrated Archivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrated archives

Garaba

2021

J. South Afr. Soc. Archiv.

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In a paper on migrated archives, Nathan Mnjama puts forward several reasons as to why these archives are in the custody of our former colonisers. Infrastructural challenges, the lack of the development of archival services and security issues are some of the reasons highlighted. Consequently, these archives were not collected and preserved within colonies and were thus repatriated to the metropolitan countries for safe storage. The removal of these archives have created gaps in archival holdings and these archives need to be located, retrieved and brought home, so he argues. The author of this response proposes that we need to start afresh and forget about this genre of archives in view of the protracted issues involved and considering the archival service challenges that most archival institutions are facing. We are now talking about de-colonisation/refiguring or Africanisation of our archives because there is over-documentation of the colonial record in our repositories and these records are often biased or incorrect.

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“…Tak częste występowanie kodu jest do pewnego stopnia efektem opatrywania tekstów na inny temat szerokim tłem historycznym (jeśli jednak było ono zarysowane tylko częściowo i nie wpływało istotnie na treść publikacji, kod ten nie był nadawany). Przykładowe tematy artykułów: historia i struktura brytyjskiej administracji kolonialnej 31 , historia Centralnego Archiwum Afrykańskiego, jego działalność publikacyjna i związek z budowaniem europejskiej tożsamości w Południowej Rodezji 32 , rozproszenie archiwaliów jako zjawisko historyczne 33 .…”

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Czasopismo „Archival Science” w latach 2011–2020 – analiza treści artykułów naukowych

Wiśniewska-Drewniak¹

2020

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The Archival Science journal in the years 2011–2020 – an analysis of research papers Archival Science is currently the most important archive journal, published in English since 2001. The aim of this article is to analyse articles published in that journal in the years 2011–2020. Four types of issues were analysed: the authors’ affiliations, geographical characteristics of articles, research methods and the subject of the published texts. As a result, it was noted that authors of articles come mostly from English-speaking countries (which confirms the trend from the years 2001–2010, studied by Eric Ketelaar in 2010) and when the subject of an article focuses on a specific geographical area, it concerns English-speaking countries as well. It was observed that many research articles do not present specific research methods and those that do mention not only traditional methods, such as archival research and a literature review, but also methods characteristic of social sciences (e.g. an interview, observation, survey). Ten most popular subjects described in the analysed texts include: digital issues, the underprivileged, state archives and documentation, the history of archives, human rights, decolonisation, ethics, preparing archival materials, social archives, the profession of an archivist and documentation manager.

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“Displaced archives”: proposing a research agenda

Cited by 15 publications

References 27 publications

Information Representation in Displaced Archives: A Meta-Synthesis

Information Representation in Displaced Archives: A Meta-Synthesis

Migrated archives

Czasopismo „Archival Science” w latach 2011–2020 – analiza treści artykułów naukowych

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