Editors’ introduction to Keeping cultures alive: Archives and Indigenous human rights

McKemmish, Sue; Iacovino, Livia; Russell, Lynette; Castan, Melissa

doi:10.1007/s10502-012-9170-9

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“…Similarly, we now understand archives as the embodiment of social or cultural practices of record-keeping, and we acknowledge the ways that they are constructed in multiple contextual ways over time and space (McKemmish et al 2011). Such challenges have prompted varied innovative and ethically driven responses, seeking to develop "tactile, material, and embodied ethical practices of curation" that include "cultural, ethical, and historical checks at each step" in a relational model built on reciprocity that Christen (2018, 400) terms "digital heritage stewardship".…”

Section: Archival Restitutionmentioning

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Indigenous Uses of Photographic Digital Heritage in Postcolonizing Australia

Lydon

2021

Photography and Culture

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The process of "postcolonizing" continues in the former settler colony of Australia, entailing intense struggles over national identity and culture. Digital heritage plays a key role in these conflicts, in the form of historical and newer archives that have become increasingly important within Indigenous advocacy for recognition. Constructed from more traditional museum, library and private collections, these have become digital assets that now circulate in radically different ways -for example, as proof of identities, and links to Country. Since the late 1990s, as a result of postcolonizing advocacy by Indigenous people and cultural institutions in alliance with rapidly developing digital technologies, a profound shift in management practices has facilitated the assertion of control by First Nations people. These are exemplified by the Aṟa Irititja project, and its replicants, such as the Storylines project at the State Library of Western Australia. Digital heritage and digitized historical photographs in particular are now considered to be key resources for building Aboriginal history and identity, challenging oppressive state narratives and strengthening communities. Despite concerns regarding loss of culture caused by globalization and continuing inequalities, Aboriginal interests have drawn upon this expanded photographic digital heritage resource, to advance their rights through new temporal practices of production, circulation, and consumption.

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Section: Archival Restitutionmentioning

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Indigenous Uses of Photographic Digital Heritage in Postcolonizing Australia

Lydon

2021

Photography and Culture

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“…The different conceptualisations of records as information, documents (Yeo, 2007), evidence (Brothman, 2002), transactions (Cox, 2001) or speech acts (Henttonen, 2007;Yeo, 2010) are all dependent on their origins. The link between records and their worth both in terms of corporate surplus value (an important driver of corporate archives and records management, e.g., Bailey, 2007;Ataman, 2009;Bailey, 2011), or their less tangible role as a source of societal accountability (a central aspect of the discussions of the need to strive for more inclusive and representative archives, e.g., McKemmish et al, 2012;Shilton and Srinivasan, 2008) are dependent on their provenance. In spite of its fundamental nature, provenance is a controversial and complex concept (Douglas, 2010).…”

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Another Wood Between the Worlds? Regimes of Worth and the Making of Meanings in the Work of Archivists

Huvila

2015

The Information Society

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The expectation that archives would function as the custodians of the longue durée of the society is paradoxical in its apparent simplicity. On the basis of an interview study of Nordic archives professionals, this article explores archives professionals experience and explicate the transformation and complexities of the worth and meaning of archival work and its major constituencies, the archival records. The analysis shows how the continuums of the worth and meaning of archival records and the work of archivists are constituted in a complex interplay of quasi--institutionalised orders of archival work, their associated but often conflicting regimes of worth and information, and similarly oscillating local intermediary practices.

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Archival representations of immigration and ethnicity in North American history: from the ethnicization of archives to the archivization of ethnicity

Daniel

2013

Arch Sci

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Editors’ introduction to Keeping cultures alive: Archives and Indigenous human rights

Cited by 12 publications

References 3 publications

Indigenous Uses of Photographic Digital Heritage in Postcolonizing Australia

Indigenous Uses of Photographic Digital Heritage in Postcolonizing Australia

Another Wood Between the Worlds? Regimes of Worth and the Making of Meanings in the Work of Archivists

Archival representations of immigration and ethnicity in North American history: from the ethnicization of archives to the archivization of ethnicity

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