Tag: Archival Theory

• Symbiosis: Systemic Medicine for Archivists & Activists

  . . . To build upon my prior exposition, on the Ethics of Care in archives, how do we confront our failure of care around the heritage of communities traditionally diminished in our archives? How do we address the diversity (or lack thereof) in our historical records? As police brutality and extrajudicial executions allude, who…

  emilyeckstrand

  July 8, 2023

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  Archival Theory, archives, Archivist, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Community Archives, DEI, Digital Humanities, Memory Work, Social Memory

• Emergent Response: Archival Ethics of Care

  . . . When many people think of an archive and the role of an archivist,  they envision a gatekeeping municipal worker tasked with rows of dusty archival boxes in official  buildings, usually  inaccessible to the public. Let me begin by shattering the archives praxis of power mythology. My professional archival career developed in the…

  emilyeckstrand

  June 28, 2023

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  Archival Theory, archives, Archivist, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Community Archives, Digital Humanities, Feminist Ethics, Memory Work