Misplaced archives, statehood and provenance out of place: the case of two personal records from the peripheries

IF 1.4 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Ana Grondona, Juan Ignacio Trovero, Celeste Viedma
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This article aims to reconsider some key aspects of the classical concept of “provenance”. To do this, we draw on our experience working with two personal archives from the South: one from Argentine physicist and mathematician Carlos Mallmann, and the other from Italian-Argentinian sociologist Gino Germani. Unlike State archives in which preserving, organizing, identifying, and standardizing public documents are a regulated obligation, the safekeeping of documents in the case of personal records is a contingency. They must overcome multiple obstacles: interventions by their custodians, difficulties in their serialization and standardization, etc. However, we will argue that some sections of personal records, especially when their creators have played institutional roles, can function as institutional archives and even as public archives. In the case of the peripheries, this feature becomes an important patrimonial aspect, given the constitutive fragility of public archives. This fragility relates to problematic issues of statehood, such as hegemony, domination, and sovereignty. We argue that these archives are constitutively incomplete, precarious, contaminated, and hybrid, leading us to problematize some aspects of the archival ratio. The latter (surreptitiously) permeates and naturalizes the experience of the North Atlantic nation-state, universalizing a singular (and historical) form of producing hegemony as a totality. Finally, we propose some reflections and raise some questions regarding how institutionality/statehood is modulated in the archives from the peripheries, and how some aspects of the classical North Atlantic notion of “provenance” appears here “out of place”.

放错地方的档案、国家地位和出处:两个来自边缘地区的个人档案案例
本文旨在重新考虑 "出处 "这一经典概念的某些关键方面。为此,我们借鉴了处理两份南方个人档案的经验:一份来自阿根廷物理学家和数学家卡洛斯-马尔曼,另一份来自意大利裔阿根廷社会学家吉诺-杰尔曼尼。在国家档案馆中,保存、整理、鉴定和规范公共文件是一项法定义务,而个人档案则不同,文件的安全保管是一项应急任务。它们必须克服多重障碍:保管人的干预、序列化和标准化方面的困难等。然而,我们将论证个人档案的某些部分,尤其是当其创建者扮演机构角色时,可以作为机构档案甚至公共档案发挥作用。就边缘地区而言,鉴于公共档案的脆弱性,这一特点成为重要的遗产方面。这种脆弱性与霸权、统治和主权等国家问题有关。我们认为,这些档案在构成上是不完整的、不稳定的、受污染的和混合的,导致我们对档案比例的某些方面提出质疑。后者(偷偷摸摸地)渗透并自然化了北大西洋民族国家的经验,将产生霸权的单一(和历史)形式普遍化为一个整体。最后,我们提出了一些思考和问题,涉及机构性/国家地位如何在来自边缘地区的档案中得到调节,以及经典的北大西洋 "来源 "概念的某些方面如何在这里显得 "格格不入"。
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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE
ARCHIVAL SCIENCE INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
CiteScore
2.70
自引率
18.20%
发文量
26
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
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