TY - BOOK ID - 86312875 TI - Urgent Archives PY - 2021 SN - 9781003001355 1003001351 1000386023 9781000386066 1000386066 9781000386028 9780367427276 0367427273 9781032000275 1032000279 DB - UniCat KW - Archivists KW - Archives KW - South Asian Americans KW - Training of. KW - Social aspects KW - Political aspects KW - South Asian American Digital Archive. KW - Documents KW - Manuscript depositories KW - Manuscript repositories KW - Manuscripts KW - Documentation KW - History KW - Information services KW - Records KW - Cartularies KW - Charters KW - Diplomatics KW - Public records KW - South Asians KW - Ethnology KW - Depositories KW - Repositories KW - SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) KW - Archivistics KW - archiving KW - archives [institutions] KW - diversiteit UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86312875 AB - "Urgent Archives argues that archivists can and should do more to disrupt white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy beyond the standard liberal archival solutions of more diverse collecting and more inclusive description. Grounded in the emerging field of critical archival studies, this book uncovers how dominant western archival theories and practices are oppressive by design, while looking toward the the radical politics of community archives to envision new liberatory theories and practices. Based on more than a decade of ethnography at community archives sites including the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA), the book explores how members of minoritized communities activate records to build solidarities across and within communities, trouble linear progress narratives, and disrupt cycles of oppression. Caswell explores the temporal, representational, and material aspects of liberatory memory work, arguing that archival disruptions in time and space should be neither about the past nor the future, but about the liberatory affects and effects of memory work in the present. Urgent Archives extends the theoretical range of critical archival studies and provides a new framework for archivists looking to transform their practices. The book should also be of interest to scholars of archival studies, museum studies, public history, memory studies, gender and ethnic studies and digital humanities"-- ER -