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Disputed Archival Heritage book cover

1st Edition

Disputed Archival Heritage

Edited By James Lowry Copyright 2023
356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerging scholars in archival studies, Disputed Archival Heritage extends and enriches the... Read more

Foreword, Jeannette Bastian

Legerdemain, Kayo Chingonyi

Introduction, James Lowry

Part I: Places and Sovereignties

  1. ‘Joint Heritage’: Provincializing an Archival Ideal - Riley Linebaugh

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  2. ‘Provenance in Place’: Crafting the Vienna Convention for Global Decolonization and Archival Repatriation – J.J. Ghaddar

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  3. Re-placing Evidence: Locating archival displacement in the US Federal Acknowledgement Process, Maria Montenegro

  4. Ngaadzoke Please: A Dare/Inkundla for the Rhodesian Army Records, Forget Chaterera-Zambuko

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    Part II: Borders and Diasporas

  5. Below the Nation State: Power Asymmetry and Jurisdictional Boundaries around the Archives of the Madeira Archipelago, L. S. Ascensão de Macedo, M. C. Vieira Freitas and C. Guardado da Silva

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  6. Records in Motion: The New York Times and the ‘ISIS Files’, Rebecca Abby Whiting

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  7. Archival Entanglements: Colonial Rule and Records in Namibia, Ellen Namhila and Werner Hillebrecht

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  8. Diasporic, Displaced, Alienated or Shared: Caribbean Literary Archives, John Aarons and Helena Leonce

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    Part III: Towards Home

  9. Displaced, Un-placed and Re-placed: Armenian Archives in the US, Anne Gilliland and Mariana Hovhannissyan

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  10. Claims for Colonial Objects and Claims for Colonial Archives: Can the Two Meet? Jos van Beurden

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  11. The Repatriation of Surinamese archives from the Netherlands:

    1. The Dutch Perspective, Frans van Dijk

    2. The Surinamese Perspective, Rita Tjien Fooh

  12. Value Displaced, Value Re/Claimed: Musings on Reparations, Shared Heritage and Caribbean Archival Records, Stanley Griffin

Biography

James Lowry is Associate Professor in Information Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is an Honorary Research Fellow and former co-director of the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies, where he taught following a ten-year career in archives and records management. James is editor of the Routledge Studies in Archives book series.

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