Full Description
Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice expands the burgeoning literature on archival social justice and impact. Illuminating how diverse factors shape the relationship between archives, recordkeeping systems, and recordkeepers, this book depicts struggles for different social justice objectives.
Discussions and debates about social justice are playing out across many disciplines, fields of practice, societal sectors, and governments, and yet one dimension cross-cutting these actors and engagement spaces has remained unexplored: the role of recordkeeping and archiving. To clarify and elaborate this connection, this volume provides a rigorous account of the engagement of archives and records—and their keepers—in struggles for social justice. Drawing upon multidisciplinary praxis and scholarship, contributors to the volume examine social justice from historical and contemporary perspectives and promote impact methodologies that align with culturally responsive, democratic, Indigenous, and transformative assessment. Underscoring the multiplicity of transformative social justice impacts influenced by recordmaking, recordkeeping, and archiving, the book presents nine case studies from around the world that link the past to the present and offer pathways towards a more just future.
Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice will be an essential reading for researchers and students engaged in the study of archives, truth and reconciliation processes, social justice, and human rights. It should also be of great interest to archivists, records managers, and information professionals.
Contents
Section 1
Chapter 1: Introduction to Archives, Recordkeeping and Social Justice
Chapter 2: Defining the Relationship between Archives and Social Justice
Chapter 3: Methodologies Archival Impact Studies
Section 2
Preface to Section Two: Categorisations and Patterns in the Case Studies
Chapter 4: Archives, Records, and Land Restitution in South Africa
Chapter 5: "Hang Onto These Words:" Aboriginal Title and the Social Meanings of Archival Custody
Chapter 6: "All I Want To Know Is Who I Am": Archival Justice for Australian Care Leavers
Chapter 7: Justice for the 96!: The Impact of Archives in the Fight for Justice for the 96 Victims of the Hillsborough Disaster
Chapter 8: Social Justice and Historical Accountability in Latin America: Access to the Records of the Truth Commissions in Chile
Chapter 9: Documenting the Fight for the City: The Impact of Activist Archives on Anti-Gentrification Campaigns
Chapter 10: Social Justice Struggles for Rights, Equality and Identity: The Role of Lesbian and Gay Archives
Chapter 11: Social Justice and Hearing Voices: Co-Constructing an Archive of Mental Health Recovery
Chapter 12: Archives "Act Back": Re-configuring Palestinian Archival Constellations and Visions of Social Justice
Chapter 13: Conclusion
