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    Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction
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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 14 December 2023

    • ISBN 9780198829324
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages544 pages
    • Size 255x178x35 mm
    • Weight 1120 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 55 Illustrations
    • 570

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    Short description:

    Archives have never been more complex, expansive, or ubiquitous. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction is an indispensable research and reference book: a hugely helpful guide to archives in the twenty-first century. Material discussed ranges from medieval manuscripts to born-digital archival content, and art objects to state papers.

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    Long description:

    Chapter 23 is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license and is free to read or download from Oxford Academic.

    Archives have never been more complex, expansive, or ubiquitous. Gargantuan in scale and conception yet never sufficient or complete, the archive is on the one hand a space for empowerment and expression and on the other an instrument of constraint and repression. The way in which the archive is structured, made available, and developed plays a central role in how societies define their values and ethics. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction is a wide-ranging and innovative volume which highlights the vibrancy and urgency of the field by bringing together contributors from many different disciplines and backgrounds, including archivists, historians, literary scholars, digital researchers, and creative practitioners.

    The archive of the twenty-first century is a fluid and multi-vocal space that challenges at every point the hegemonic and positivistic assumptions which shaped traditional ideas of the archive. The massive growth of digital archives further complicates the picture. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction is designed to help the reader draw threads through the rapidly changing and shifting multiverse of archives. The interdisciplinary and international contributors use a wide range of examples, from the Middle Ages to the Windrush scandal, to unsettle preconceptions, encourage debate, and draw out issues generated by the perpetual motion of the archive.

    This volume is an asset to the study of archives, providing an important update for both the present and the recent past.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Illustrations
    Abbreviations
    Acknowledgements
    Notes on Editorial Policy
    Notes on Contributors
    Foreword by Carolyn Steedman
    Introduction by Andrew Prescott and Alison Wiggins
    I. Conceptions
    'The Archive' is Not An Archives: Acknowledging the Intellectual Contribution of Archival Studies
    Where and What are the Boundaries of the Archive?
    Digitality and Reconfiguring Global Archive(s) of Forced Migration
    The Record as Command
    New Memory and The Archive
    Response to Conceptions
    II. Frameworks
    Appraisal and Original Order: The Power Structures of the Archive
    Archival Education and Professionalism
    Metadata
    Networks
    Authenticating and Evaluating Evidence
    More Content, Less Context: Rethinking Access
    Response to Frameworks
    III. Materialities
    The Materiality of Written Textual Forms
    Sound and Vision: The Audio-Visual Archive
    Doors Into the Archives: Material Objects and Document Collections
    Archives, Art, and the Performativity of Practice
    Digital Innovation and Archival Thinking
    Response to Materialities
    IV. Encounters & Evolution
    The Agency of Archivers
    State Power and the Shaping of Archives in Malawi
    Archival Impulses and the Gunpowder Plot
    Accidentally on Purpose: Denying Any Responsibility for the Accidental Archive
    Response to Encounters & Evolution
    V. Narrators
    From Repositories of Failure to Archives of Abolition
    Writer-Editors Making the Haitian and Caribbean Archives Talk
    Finding Women in the Archives of 1381
    On Family History and Archives
    An Artist Unpacks the Archives
    Response to Narrators
    VI. Erasures & Exclusion
    America's Scrapbook: A Reckoning in the Archives
    Irreconcilable Archives: Queer Collections and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
    Destruction and Displacement: The 2003 War and the Struggle for Iraq's Records
    Of Bonfires, Mindsets, and Policies: The Multi-Causal Matrix of Silence in Ghanaian Public Archives
    Response to Erasures & Exclusion
    Afterword by Verne Harris
    Index

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