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Abstract
Exploring the challenges and opportunities inherent in the act of “doing feminist archiving,” this paper considers how archival materials have been accumulated and used in two distinct contexts: Alternative Toronto, a digital archive in Toronto, Ontario and the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) Archives at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture located in the Rubenstein Library at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Although very different in form, scope and capacity, these archives both demonstrate tensions between archiving the self and archiving the collective, navigating blurred distinctions between creating a record and creating an archive and incorporating feminist process as archival practice. I illustrate these tensions in order to demonstrate how traditional understandings of provenance become challenged by the vast array of social, cultural and political entanglements that influence, shape and constrain feminist archiving efforts.
本文探讨了 "进行女权归档 "这一行为所固有的挑战和机遇,研究了档案资料是如何在两种截然不同的环境中积累和使用的:Alternative Toronto 是位于安大略省多伦多市的一个数字档案馆,而亚特兰大女同性恋联盟 (ALFA) 档案馆则位于北卡罗来纳州达勒姆杜克大学鲁宾斯坦图书馆的萨莉-宾厄姆妇女历史与文化中心(Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture)。尽管在形式、范围和容量上有很大的不同,但这些档案都展示了将自我归档和将集体归档之间的紧张关系,在创建记录和创建档案之间的模糊区别,以及将女权主义过程纳入档案实践。我说明这些紧张关系,是为了展示传统的来源理解如何受到影响、塑造和制约女权档案工作的大量社会、文化和政治纠葛的挑战。
期刊介绍:
Archival Science promotes the development of archival science as an autonomous scientific discipline. The journal covers all aspects of archival science theory, methodology, and practice. Moreover, it investigates different cultural approaches to creation, management and provision of access to archives, records, and data. It also seeks to promote the exchange and comparison of concepts, views and attitudes related to recordkeeping issues around the world.Archival Science''s approach is integrated, interdisciplinary, and intercultural. Its scope encompasses the entire field of recorded process-related information, analyzed in terms of form, structure, and context. To meet its objectives, the journal draws from scientific disciplines that deal with the function of records and the way they are created, preserved, and retrieved; the context in which information is generated, managed, and used; and the social and cultural environment of records creation at different times and places.Covers all aspects of archival science theory, methodology, and practiceInvestigates different cultural approaches to creation, management and provision of access to archives, records, and dataPromotes the exchange and comparison of concepts, views, and attitudes related to recordkeeping issues around the worldAddresses the entire field of recorded process-related information, analyzed in terms of form, structure, and context