Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work

by Michelle Caswell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367427276
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2021
Series:	Routledge Studies in Archives
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michelle Caswell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the co-founder of the South Asian American Digital Archive.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Community Archives: Assimilation, Integration, or Resistance?; 1. A Matter of Time: Archival Temporalities; 2. Community Archives Interrupting Time; 3. From Representation to Activation; 4. Imagining Liberatory Memory Work; Conclusion: Liberation Now!