Moving Archives

Moving Archives

Moving Archives

Moving Archives

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Overview

The image of the dusty, undisturbed archives has been swept away in direct response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through our engagement with those materials.

Related theoretical frameworks and practices of archival studies scholars and archivists are transforming, furthermore, to reflect our understanding of the archives as anything but static. Archival deposits are proliferating with speed and the architects, practitioners, and scholars engaged with them are scarcely able to keep abreast of them. Archives, archival theory, and archival practice are on the move.

But what of the entreaties made in response to archives? What of the archives that were once safely housed and have since been lost, or are under threat? What of the urgency that underscores the appeals made on behalf of these archives? As scholars in this volume argue, archives—their materialization, their preservation, and the research produced about them—are also moving in a different way: they are involved in an emotionally engaged and charged process, one that acts equally upon archival subjects and those engaged with them. So, too, do archives at once represent members of various communities and the fields of study drawn to them.

Moving Archives grounds itself in the critical trajectory related to what Sara Ahmed calls “affective economies” to offer fresh insight into the processes of archiving and engaging with literary materials. These economies form the crucial affective contexts for the legitimation of archival caches in the present moment and for future use. Though they are not necessarily determined by ethical impulses, many scholars have called for such impulses to inform current archival practices, precisely because no archive is neutral.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771124027
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date: 01/15/2020
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Linda M. Morra is a full professor at Bishop's University. She was the Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies (2016-2017) at UniversityCollege Dublin and a visiting scholar at Berkeley, University of California (2016). Her book Unarrested Archives (2014) was a finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Prize.

Table of Contents

Introduction Linda M. Morra, Bishop’s University1. Archive Transfer / Archival Transformation: The Intervening Space Between / Patricia Godbout and Marc André Fortin, Universityé de Sherbrooke 2. Inside the Cover, Outside the Archive: The Dispersal, Loss, and Value of Jane Rule’s Library / Linda M. Morra, Bishop’s University3. Myles na gCopaleen’s “An Scian”: A Knife in the Back of Irish Archivists / Joseph LaBine, University of Windsor 4. Listening to the Archives of Phyllis Webb / Katherine McLeod, Concordia University5. Don’t you know that digitization is not enough? Digitization is not enough! Building Accountable Archives and the Digital Dilemma of the Cabaret Commons / TL Cowan, University of Toronto 6. Fresh-Water Archives: Reading Water in Troy Burle Bailey’s The Pierre Bonga Loops / Karina Vernon, University of Toronto 7. “The fearful state of things”: Arrested Kinship and Genres of Documentation in the Annual Report of the Canada Sunday School Union, 1836-1876 / Erin Kean, University of Ottawa 8. Letting Grief Move Me: Thinking Through the Affective Dimensions of Personal Recordkeeping / Jennifer Douglas, UBC 9. Reading for Queer Openings: Moving. Archives of the Self. Fred Wah. / Susan Rudy, Queen Mary, University of London Contributors Patricia Godbout, l'Universitye de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC Marc Fortin, l'Universitye de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC Linda M. Morra, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, QC Joseph LaBine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON Katherine McLeod, Concordia University, Montreal, QC Karina Vernon, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Erin Kean, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON Jennifer Douglas, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Susan Rudy, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
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