Documenting Disability History in Western Pennsylvania

Malley, Bridget

doi:10.17723/0360-9081-84.1.13

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“…To combat this narrow focus, any new archive must include outreach to sources from different international perspectives. This need for connectivity between sources and institutions and an understanding of context to fully represent disability in the archive has been recognised in American Archival Science literature (Malley 2021). It calls for documentation strategies that focus on the creation of networks between archives and greater training for archivists to ensure that such representation is meaningful.…”

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Breaking out of the box: increasing the representation of disability within archive science

Pearson,

Griffith,

Rakoska

et al. 2024

Arch Sci

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This article explores the value of archives in increasing the representation of disabled people in social policy, and research narratives, as well as building an identity of the Disabled People’s Movement beyond traditional activism, and the inclusion of young people and marginalised groups within archives. To achieve this, it is vital that archival studies and archival science engage with the conceptual understanding of disability and the different needs of disabled people, beyond the traditional focus on the medical model, to an understanding of the Social and Rights Models. This understanding will help to unify approaches to disability within the archive from both an archival science and humanities perspective to make sure that polices and approaches facilitate the participation and recognition of the wide experiences of disability. This will require re-evaluation of approaches to policy issues such as safeguarding and vulnerability, social media use and whose voice is worthy of preservation. Engagement with the broader field of disability studies in theory and practice offers a way for the field of archive science to address these issues.

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Section: Whose Voices Are Included In the Archive?mentioning

confidence: 99%