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Id : 630

Author :
Paschild C.

Title


Community archives and the limitations of identity: Considering discursive impact on material needs

Reference :


Paschild C.; Community archives and the limitations of identity: Considering discursive impact on material needs ;American Archivist vol:75 issue: 1 page:125.0

Link to article https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84864135317&doi=10.17723%2faarc.75.1.c181102l71x4572h&partnerID=40&md5=1ff941c06b0e758cdfc81cdb2f808a8f
Abstract This article examines how a postmodern-influenced discourse of identity shapes and influences critical analysis of community archives, both internally and externally, and asks if the accompanying terms of engagement shift focus, to negative effect, from the more pressing needs and challenges of these institutions and projects. Looking to archival professional literature and to a recent self-assessment of the Japanese American National Museum, the article argues that an overarching emphasis on questions of identity can distract community institutions from pragmatic evaluations of sustainable practice and can inadvertently mire archivists in a marginalizing rhetoric that blurs the issues at hand. © Cristine N. Paschild.



Results:


                    Category                    

             Certainity            
Heritage 0.8063
Archives 0.0005
Libraries 0.0261
Book and Press 0.0000
Visual Arts 0.0156
Performing Arts 0.0132
Audiovisual and Multimedia 0.0009
Architecture 0.0113
Adverstizing 0.0000
Art crafts 0.0042
General cultural dimension 0.1219
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