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Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign 'silence' is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, India, Iceland, Jamaica, Malawi, The Philippines, Scotland, Turkey and the United States. Making a clear link between autocratic regimes and the failure to record often horrendous crimes against humanity, the volume demonstrates that the failure of governments to create records, or to allow access to records, appears to be universal. Arguing that this helps to establish a hegemonic narrative that excludes the 'other', this book showcases the actions historians and archivists have taken to ensure that gaps in archives are filled. Yet the book also claims that silences in archives are inevitable and argues not only that recordkeeping should be mandated by international courts and bodies, but that we need to develop other ways of reading archives broadly conceived to compensate for absences.Archival Silences addresses fundamental issues of access to the written record around the world. It is directed at those with a concern for social justice, particularly scholars and students of archival studies, history, sociology, international relations, international law, business administration and information science.

Historical or political science research using primary source evidence faces a major barrier to transparency and replicability: the archival documents used are often difficult to access. The Annotation for Transparent Inquiry Initiative developed a digital overlay tool that enables researchers to create enhanced annotations in articles and link to digital copies of archival sources in trusted repositories. Dr Joseph O'Mahoney was involved in the project to pilot this tool and has published a practical guide based on his experience.

Large-scale digitization is generating extraordinary collections of visual and textual surrogates, potentially endowed with transcendent long-term cultural and research values. Understanding the nature of digital surrogacy is a substantial intellectual opportunity for archival science and the digital humanities, because of the increasing independence of surrogate collections from their archival sources. The paper presents an argument that one of the most significant requirements for the long-term access to collections of digital surrogates is to treat digital surrogates as archival records that embody traces of their fluid lifecycles and therefore are worthy of management and preservation as archives. It advances a theory of the archival nature of surrogacy founded on longstanding notions of archival quality, the traces of their source and the conditions of their creation, and the functional "work of the archive." The paper presents evidence supporting a "secondary provenance" derived from re-digitization, re-ingestion of multiple versions, and de facto replacement of the original sources. The design of the underlying research that motivates the paper and summary findings are reported separately. The research has been supported generously by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The article analyzes the problem of remote access to archival funds of all kinds of ownership in the Russian Federation under conditions of restrictions associated with the pandemic. A viable solution would include unification of legislation and the total digitalization of archival funds. ; В статье анализируется проблема удаленного доступа к архивным фондам всех уровней собственности в Российской Федерации в условиях ограничений, связанных с пандемией. Целесообразным решением являются унификация законодательства и тотальная цифровизация архивных фондов.

The purpose of the study is to analyze the legislative framework for regulating access to documents of the National Archival Fund (NAF) as a component of the state policy of national memory in Ukraine. Research methodology: when preparing the article, general scientific methods were used in combination with interdisciplinary and special methods; a significant place given to historical, systematic, structural-functional, and logical approaches to scientific research. The main results of the research: the legislative framework in the archival industry of Ukraine related to the regulation of access to NAF documents was analyzed; the process of forming the legislative framework was reproduced and the evolution of the control of access to archival documents was traced, taking into account the main principles of the state policy of national memory; problematic issues and ways to solve them are defined; the initiatives and actions of the Main Archival Department under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine / the State Committee of Archives of Ukraine / the State Archival Service of Ukraine, as the central body of the executive power, in the law-making process were monitored; the participation of civil society institutions in the law-making process is clarified; it was concluded that the legislative framework complies with the principles of transparency and accessibility, which allows for free access to NAF documents, taking into account the rights of citizens and the interests of the state. Prospects for further research include an analysis of the entire regulatory framework for regulating access to NAF documents, as well as a comparative analysis of the regulatory framework in Ukraine and other countries. Factual material, main provisions, and conclusions can be used when writing general papers, methodological developments, normative and special courses on public administration issues, archival studies, and the practical activities of state archival institutions of Ukraine.

"As film stars, actresses have throughout film history contributed to the film industry's glamorous surface, providing audiences with visual attraction and different representations of femininity. To talk about women in film as "invisible" may thus seem odd or even wrong. This book, however, is concerned with the paradox that on the other side of the camera, women are clearly underrepresented. This is true of contemporary film culture, and has been true historically, despite significant variations between countries/geographical areas, historical time periods and different roles/professions in film production, distribution and exhibition. This anthology recovers forgotten aspects of women's work and memory, tracing women's film work through the lens of Swedish film history, with a few forays into international film ventures. Using a variety of methods and approaches, including careful study of previously neglected archival material, lived experiences, interviews, and theoretical reflections on feminist historiography, the book explores themes of women's agency and (lack of) visibility in a cultural context very different to Hollywood, thus providing readers with a healthy counterweight to the dominance of Anglo-American material in film scholarship published in English. The articles deal with women's agency in a wide range of roles, in film production, exhibition and criticism, but also with new perspectives on stars/actresses and their agency, and including LGBT and queer identities.
The research presents material evidence of women's involvement in film culture being obscured and ignored because of its status as "women's work", and/or of marginal rather than mainstream interest. The book is divided into two parts, where the first part collects chapters that cover neglected dimensions of silent film culture and the use of archival film as cultural memory in documentary work from various time periods, whereas the second part of the book is focussed mainly on films and filmmaking in the 1970s and 1980s."

This work provides access to information on the rich and often little known legacy of anthropological scholarship preserved in a diversity of archives, libraries and museums. Selected anthropological manuscripts, papers, fieldnotes, site reports, photographs and sound recordings in more than 150 repositories are described. Coverage of resources in North American repositories is extensive while Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Australia and certain other countries are more selectively represented. Entries are arranged by repository location and most contributors draw upon a special kn

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Lithuanian culture facing the challenge of globalization carries an actual ambition of integration the Lithuanian emigrants' heritage. The archival foundation is a part of it. The great interest in the culture, history and experiences of Lithuanian emigration emerged when Lithuania gained it's independence in 1990. Now these days are gone. Only narrow circles of academic and public society still concern about the fate of Lithuanian emigration's heritage.This paper deals with the archival foundation of two main Lithuanian ideological movements, which flourished among Lithuanian émigré after World War II. The problems of storage, relevance and access are discussed.Since the end of the 19th century the Lithuanian ideological landscape has been shaped by the movements of Catholic or liberal orientation. The clash between Catholic and liberal ideological trends increased during the period of the first Lithuanian Republic (1918–1940) and especially during the years of anti-Nazi resistAbstractance. The conflict of the ideologically orientated Catholics and liberals reached its peak during the years of emigration.The research points that despite the ideological disagreement the fate of the archival foundation of two Lithuanian emigration ideological movements is similar. During the years of action most of the ideological institutions' didn't pay special attention to the systematic storage of the archival foundation. It should be stated that the archival foundation of two Lithuanian emigration ideological movements is dispersed in the archival institutions in Lithuania and abroad and in the variety of personal archives. The materials kept in the archival institutions are available for the academics and public. The access to the archival documents kept in personal archives could be complicated. However, the fate of the private archives is the question of the ultimate concern. The death of the archive keeper often means the loss of an important and valuable historical and cultural material. ; Straipsnyje aptariamas dviejų DP emigracinės bangos ideologinių srovių – vadinamųjų katalikų ir liberalų – archyvinio paveldo likimas; pristatomos archyvų kaupimo, išsaugojimo, aktualumo ir prieinamumo problemos. Nepaisant ideologijų srovių nesutarimų išeivijoje, daroma išvada, kad požiūris į archyvų kaupimą ir išlaikymą buvo panašus – dažniausiai archyvai nebuvo sistemingai kaupiamai. Panašus išeivijos liberalų ir katalikų srovių archyvų likimas: nemaža jų dalis saugoma oficialiose archyvinėse institucijose Lietuvoje ir užsienyje, tačiau ne mažiau išeivijos ideologinių srovių archyvinio paveldo yra ir privačiuose archyvuose. Oficialiose archyvinėse institucijose saugomi išeivijos katalikų ir liberalų archyviniai fondai yra susiformavę asmeninių archyvų pagrindu. Asmeninių archyvų sudėtis įvairi: juose yra susimaišę asmeniniai laiškai su oficialių organizacijų dokumentais, knygos su rankraščiais, muziejiniai eksponatai, daiktai ir periodiniai leidiniai. Išeivijos katalikų ir liberalų archyvinių fondų likimas įvairius – vieni jų išnyksta mirus archyvo sudarytojui, kiti išlaikomi asmeniniuose archyvuose, treti patenka į Lietuvos ar užsienio archyvines institucijas.

Past analyses of gentrification have largely examined the phenomenon along the consumption-production theory binary; the former contending that the middle-class consumer is to blame for initiating the process, the latter illuminating the contributions of larger political entities. This oversimplifies the complex process of gentrification, boiling its causal factors down to a singular class, policy, event, or point in time. This tendency to homogenize the root cause of gentrification gives a narrow understanding of a city's history and largely ignores the overarching, systemic patterns of class and race-based oppression that have played into a city's development over time. Furthermore, colonizers and gentrifiers alike have claimed that city investments are intended to benefit the community at large, but these same efforts often work against the needs of, and often displace, local community members. Hudson, NY proves useful as a case study to test the hypothesis that the disproportionate means of betterment that gentrification has historically allowed for is largely a result of the gatekeeping of capital that was initiated by the region's colonizers. This hypothesis is assessed through the analysis of various means of financial and social betterment - property ownership, public safety, and public services - that we born during Hudson's colonization in the fifteen and sixteenth centuries. The strength and persistence of these colonial legacies will be evaluated through the comparison of various bodies of legislation and institutions that have been actively functioning during Hudson's more recent period of gentrification - beginning around 1960 and lasting until current day. This study ultimately reveals that the degree to which one possesses the "correct" means of social and financial capital, as determined by Hudson's colonizers, severely affects the extent to which one has access to property ownership, public services, and protection by public safety measures today, which together guarantee one's chances for ...

This article contributes to critical archival studies discourse and builds upon the theoretical and practical work accomplished under the postcustodial rubric in order to propose an archival framework that is explicitly oriented in the service of justice. Global north/south postcustodial collaborations highlight the ethical and practical obligation of adopting an archival framework that accounts for expanded notions of stewardship and narrative agency. As an archivist based in US academic libraries who works primarily on transnational archival collaborations in the global south, I want to introduce the concept of contributive justice to these postcustodial transnational collaborations because it reframes the role of the partner organization in the global south and acknowledges the agency of all partners (Gomberg 2007). By drawing upon my experiences facilitating transnational archival partnerships between US academic libraries and institutions in Cuba, El Salvador, and Rwanda, I build upon Michelle Caswell's (2017) suggested actions for dismantling white supremacy within US archives by offering concrete ways archivists can utilize a contributive justice framework to decolonize archival practices (i.e., appraisal, description, access) within transnational partnerships. By offering these examples, we can begin to both imagine and enact a more just and liberatory archival praxis. As Caswell states, 'through the lens of liberatory archival imaginaries, our work … does not end with the limits of our collection policies, but rather, it is an ongoing process of conceptualizing what we want the future to look like' (2014a: 51). The stakes are high in the shaping of our collective histories, and we all have the responsibility of envisioning and enacting liberatory archival futures.

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