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| Id | 627 | |
| Author | Caswell M., Migoni A.A., Geraci N., Cifor M. | |
| Title | ‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: community archives and the importance of representation | |
| Reference | Caswell M., Migoni A.A., Geraci N., Cifor M.; ‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: community archives and the importance of representation ;Archives and Records vol:38 issue: 1 page:5.0 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85000788224&doi=10.1080%2f23257962.2016.1260445&partnerID=40&md5=a34e8acffe2015c392df69f757c8fa7a |
| Abstract | Through data gleaned from semi-structured interviews with 17 community archives founders, volunteers and staff at 12 sites in Southern California, this paper develops a new tripartite framework for understanding the ontological, epistemological and social impact of community archives. Throughout, it reflects the ways in which communities marginalized by race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender and political position experience both the profoundly negative affective consequences of absence and misrepresentation in mainstream media and archives (which it calls ‘symbolic annihilation’) and the positive effect of complex and autonomous forms of representation in community-driven archives (which it terms ‘representational belonging’). © 2016 Archives and Records Association. |
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| And so I think the implications are huge as far as self-realization, or pride-building, or knowledge enhancement, all of those things. . | As this quote illustrates, our respondents thought community archives promote a sense of social cohesion among community members that benefits society as a whole. . | We are also interested in exploring how community archives might leverage this model to their own benefit. . | The social impact of archives in particular manifests itself in issues surrounding the development of personal and community identity, the preservation of culture, broadening understandings of history and the positive representation of communities.34 . | Thats, I think, the power of some of these community-based archive projects. . | Social impact Interview subjects whose work was organized around preserving the histories of communities of colour described how, in contrast to mainstream repositories, community archives helped them see their families reflected in history, and as a result, they felt a sense of inclusion or social belonging. . | And so a library functions in support of the university, and they want big things. . |
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