Surfacing black and brown bodies in the digital archive: domestic workers in late nineteenth-century Australia

Bressey, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2020.07.001

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“…The sub-text of this is that aggregation (combined with powerful search tools) offers the possibility of scaling-up absence into presence; digital archives can be used to resurrect ‘forgotten’ individuals. However, Caroline Bressey repeats the warning of feminist historians that digitisation ‘has not transformed the nature of the sources we are searching’ (Hunter, 2017: 210, cited in Bressey, 2020). Here alternative methods might merit attention, such as Saidiya Hartman’s (2008: 11) notion of ‘critical fabulation’.…”

Section: Ethics and Recombinationmentioning

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“…It is easy to mistake digital archives as tools of convenience: that they simply speed up the kind of work we were already doing (Ramsay, 2010). This may explain the lack of formal, methodological reflection from historical geographers (Bressey, 2020). But, as the quote from ProQuest above intimates, digitisation is more than a technical convenience.…”

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Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies

Hodder

Beckingham

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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This article considers how digitisation is reshaping archival research in geography. Digitisation is more than a technical convenience, something that simply speeds up existing ways of working. Through novel practices of recombination, digital archive platforms enable researchers to extract and recombine fragments of historical information, drawn across multiple periods, places, collections and contexts. This represents a fundamental change in how we research the past. In this paper, we conceptualise recombination as an uneven geographical phenomenon, we situate it within the shifting political and economic infrastructures of archives, and pose a series of ethical questions for geographers to consider.

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Section: Ethics and Recombinationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies

Hodder

Beckingham

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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“…19 Although there are gaps and silences in the TROVE newspaper database, it does, nevertheless, give access to information about the lives of people missing in more conventional sources, and allows them to be tracked beyond the immediate instance that brings them to public attention. 20 As Figure 1 shows, the bulk of the newspaper reports came from the major urban centres, reflecting both the high level of urbanisation in Australia, and the concentration of maternity facilities in those centres. However, the difference between rural and urban reports decreases by the mid-twentieth century, suggesting that the alternatives to abandonment, the most prominent of which was adoption, legalised in Australia from the 1920s, were less effective outside the major cities.…”

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Left on a Doorstep: The Role of Infant Abandonment in Preserving and Exposing Family Secrets in Australia 1834–1954

Swain¹

2022

Journal of Family History

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Based on a database of Australian cases from 1834–1954, this article argues that abandonment was an intentional strategy intended to maximise a child's chances of survival while preserving its family's reputation. However, abandonment had the potential to expose family secrets, bringing them into the public gaze and subjecting them to interrogation. Abandonment was also used for revenge, exposing the identity of putative fathers in a demand for financial support. Through this analysis the article positions abandonment as a key site of interaction between the individual and society, and the private and the public in relation to the politics of secrecy.

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“…After the number of data increases and accumulates, they should be collected, stored, and then processed. Management of archives is more effective now due to the use of electronic tools (Bressey, 2020;Ribka Aprilia et al, 2020;Şimşek et al, 2022). If an institution has implemented an electronic archive system, it can save workspace, as the physical storage can be replaced by computer storage.…”

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The Utilization of Electronic Archives as a Support for Study Employee Performance at The Customs and Excise Office Type A Semarang Customs

Dewi

2021

IJSSB

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Technological developments make it easier for employees to carry out work, including archive management employees. Archives undergo changes and developments in electronic form. The development of supporting technology for electronic archive management. This study aims to analyze the use of electronic records to support the effectiveness of employee performance and the factors that support employee performance. This qualitative research uses a descriptive approach. The technique used to collect data is interviews. The instrument used to collect data is a questionnaire. This study uses three stages of data analysis, namely data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. The research subject is the selected resource person, an employee with the position of Customs and Excise Inspector. The technique used to analyze the data is descriptive qualitative analysis. The results of this study indicate that the use of electronic archives supports employee performance. The benefits of using electronic archives include easy and fast use, safe, and time-saving. There are four factors supporting employee performance: the work environment, ability, motivation, and adequate facilities. Factors supporting employee performance in using electronic records are leaders who always encourage employees to learn and develop themselves and a comfortable work environment for employees, human resource capabilities, and adequate facilities and equipment provided by the institution.

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Surfacing black and brown bodies in the digital archive: domestic workers in late nineteenth-century Australia

Cited by 7 publications

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Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies

Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies

Left on a Doorstep: The Role of Infant Abandonment in Preserving and Exposing Family Secrets in Australia 1834–1954

The Utilization of Electronic Archives as a Support for Study Employee Performance at The Customs and Excise Office Type A Semarang Customs

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