One offers a moving reflection on how the relative wealth and prestige of Western researchers can gain them entry to collections such as Uzbekistan’s newly formed Central State Archive, which severely limits the access of Uzbek researchers. Others explore the genealogies of specific archives, from one of the most influential archival institutions in the modern West, the Archives nationales in Paris, to the significant archives of the Bakunin family in Russia, which were saved largely through the efforts of one family member. Still others explore the impact of current events on the analysis of particular archives. A contributor tells of researching the 1976 Soweto riots in the politically charged atmosphere of the early 1990s, just as apartheid in South Africa was coming to an end. A contributor tells of researching the 1976 Soweto riots in the politically charged atmosphere of the early 1990s, just as apartheid in South Africa was coming to an end. A number of the essays question what counts as an archive — and what counts as history — as they consider oral histories, cyberspace, fiction, and plans for streets and buildings that were never built, for histories that never materialized.' - from back cover.
Includes a select biography and an index.
Onsite
English
2005
396
9780822336884
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anthology
Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories - Antoinette BURTON
Part I Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone
National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India - Durba GHOSH
'Without the Past There Is No Future': Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan - Jeff SAHADEO
Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport - Craig ROBERSTON
Mr. Peal's Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire - Tony BALLANTYNE
A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodiment of Queer Latino Community Histories - Horacio N. ROQUE RAMIREZ
Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace - Renee M. SENTILLES
Part II States of the Art: 'Official' Archives and Counter-Histories
'What Is an Archive?' in the History of Modern France - Jennifer S. MILLIGAN
The Archive and the Case of the German Nation - Peter FRITZSCHE
On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive - John RANDOLPH
Creating the 'Suffragette Spirit': British Feminism and the Historical Imagination - Laura MAYHALL
Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century, Kohler, Wisconsin - Kathryn J. OBERDECK
Fiction's Imaginative Archive and the Newspaper's Local Scandals: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt - Marilyn BOOTH
Part III Archive Matters: The Past in the Present
In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives of South Africa - Helena POHLANDT-MCCORMICK
The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia - Adele PERRY
The History of Killing and the Killing of History - Ann CURTHOYS
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