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A case study of guerrilla virtual reunification from the Morningside Hospital History Project: privacy and access, independence and sustainability 来自晨兴医院历史项目的游击虚拟统一案例研究：隐私和访问，独立性和可持续性

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09519-4

Shir Bach

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Situating the animal presence in colonial archives: a case of the Madras Presidency 在殖民地档案中定位动物的存在：以马德拉斯总统为例

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09518-5

Joshy Teresa

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Counter-surveying apartheid-era forced removals in South Africa: a spatial approach to archival social justice 反调查南非种族隔离时代的强制拆迁：档案社会正义的空间方法

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09517-6

Siddique Motala, Tlotliso Mokomane, David A. Wallace

{"title":"Counter-surveying apartheid-era forced removals in South Africa: a spatial approach to archival social justice","authors":"Siddique Motala, Tlotliso Mokomane, David A. Wallace","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09517-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09517-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper describes and reports on applications of the counter-surveying methodology that reads together geomatics (surveying and mapping) and archival social justice (activation of archives to serve social justice outcomes and counter injustice) in relation to two sites of forced removal: one in District Six in Cape Town and the other in Die Vlakte in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Archives from multiple sources are activated to supplement the recording of the stories of ex-residents who experienced forced removal. Ex-residents further engage through a process of annotating maps from their neighbourhood. In combination this documentation enriches and deepens knowledge about these forced removals. Counter-surveying works to ensure that these demolitions and their ongoing impacts on lives are documented so that their histories and existence are not rendered invisible for future generations. Ex-residents, most of whom are facing their final decades, hold the last remnants of living memory connected to these sites. Counter-surveying provides the opportunity for ex-residents to revisit and recall in the wake of community demolition. This work is motivated by an activist approach and memory for justice ethic that focuses explicitly on land and memory. We close this paper with key findings and invitation to others to take counter-surveying as a praxis and methodology that can be meaningfully applied to other sites of forced removal, working with both the original inhabitants or their descendants who were likewise impacted.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09517-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Armenian Genocide survivor oral history as an archival resource 亚美尼亚种族灭绝幸存者口述历史作为档案资源

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09516-7

Manuk Avedikyan, Arman Khachatryan

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Multiple voices in a majlis: the growth of archives in the United Arab Emirates and the role of New York University Abu Dhabi 议会中的多种声音：阿拉伯联合酋长国档案的增长和阿布扎比纽约大学的作用

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09512-x

Brad Bauer

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“The desert is coming!”: tracing transitions through a personal archive “沙漠来了！”：通过个人档案跟踪转换

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09509-6

Maria João Fonseca

{"title":"“The desert is coming!”: tracing transitions through a personal archive","authors":"Maria João Fonseca","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09509-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09509-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the Sahara Desert expansion, climate changes and aridity have intensified yearly in Portugal. In 1975, landscape architect Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles warned about this reality, stating “Man precedes the desert; the desert succeeds him” (quoted by heart), urging comprehension of the landscape’s social and biophysical structure limits, which hinge on the perception of each reality or ecological capacity; otherwise, the desert overcomes. This article delves into the archival experience of Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles’ work, exploring desert and landscape as the paradoxes of the hidden memory of a personal archive that is not accessible or the reflection of the creator that emerges from the archival process. Three topics are discussed: Void as a place of memory. Deserts, like archives, embody a sense of material continuity while, at the same time, they evoke an unsettling emptiness. Our standpoint transforms their essence, giving access to other times and memories only through traces and their reconstitution. Embark on a journey. While archives are plentiful with research material, the journey to navigate and uncover the meaningful connections within can resemble an expedition into the vastness of a desert where access to information occurs at each activation, influenced by social or personal factors and concerns. Nothingness becomes fullness when in context. Archives and landscapes are an expression of relationship networks, and our future is built upon the recognition of this network, the processes to access memory, but also rely on affectivity and the care we pay to them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09509-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145073914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Global sufferings, local voices: archival reactivations in Jewish theatre ephemera from Turkey 全球的苦难，当地的声音：土耳其犹太戏剧的档案重新激活

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09514-9

Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay

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Obligation in Finnish records and information management laws 芬兰记录和信息管理法中的义务

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09515-8

Tuija Kautto

{"title":"Obligation in Finnish records and information management laws","authors":"Tuija Kautto","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09515-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09515-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines the interaction between recordkeeping concepts and deontic modality in expressing obligations in selected Finnish records and information management (RIM) laws, translated into English by the authorities. It identifies which recordkeeping concepts appear in deontic contexts, their discoverability, and how their meanings differ between legal texts and terminologies. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, the study maps the frequency of relevant terms, codes legislative excerpts, and compares conceptual usage across legal and recordkeeping frameworks. Findings reveal inconsistent use of recordkeeping concepts and syntactic complexity that obscures their connection to modality expressions. The study recommends interdisciplinary collaboration in legislative drafting, development of nationally adapted yet internationally informed terminologies, machine-readable legal texts, and clearer distinctions between types of information—particularly in public authorities—to improve legal clarity, enforceability, and automation in multilingual digital systems. The study also elucidates structural and semantic factors that may hinder the interpretation and implementation of legal mandates. Although grounded in the Finnish context, the findings are transferable and offer insights for jurisdictions facing similar challenges in aligning legal language with digital recordkeeping practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09515-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Toward a performative epistemology of the archive: archival enactment as Rum futurity 迈向档案的行为认识论：档案制定是朗姆酒的未来

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09507-8

Christina Banalopoulou

{"title":"Toward a performative epistemology of the archive: archival enactment as Rum futurity","authors":"Christina Banalopoulou","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09507-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09507-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article maps the alternative archives of the Rum community, those that do not fully align either with national mnemonics or the minority’s dominant archival politics. I demonstrate how the Rum minority performs and enacts its archives—what I define as archival enactment—in order to claim grassroots agency in its mnemonic preservation. Despite their sociopolitical and cultural significance and their important potential for the study of archival science, the Rum minority’s archival practices have been almost entirely ignored in the scholarship. Rum enacted archives call for a methodological shift from what the archive is—which is a definitory inquiry—to what the archive does and what worlds its transference constitutes—which is a question regarding archival performativity. Drawing upon rigorous multi-sited archival and ethnographic research, I show how the Rum minority performs its archives not just as documents of the past in need of interpretation but, most importantly, in the present as part of its envisioning and enacting of alternative futures. Blurring the boundaries between everyday performance, as expressed in familial and community settings, and artistic performance, as expressed in theatre, Rum archival enactment offers a great site for developing a dialogic practice of archival research that suspends the power differential between the archive and the researcher. I thus propose a performative epistemology for studying the archive that employs performance not only as archival content but also as transference and production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09507-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144990334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“The finding aid is the first thing that people see, we don’t want to put anyone off viewing the collection”: how practitioners navigate queerness in finding aids “人们首先看到的是助听器，我们不想让任何人错过我们的藏品”：从业者如何在寻找助听器时处理酷儿问题

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09513-w

Travis L. Wagner, Evan M. Allgood, Mateo Caballero

{"title":"“The finding aid is the first thing that people see, we don’t want to put anyone off viewing the collection”: how practitioners navigate queerness in finding aids","authors":"Travis L. Wagner, Evan M. Allgood, Mateo Caballero","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09513-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09513-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper reports on findings from semi-structured interviews with 29 archival practitioners who work on the creation and maintenance of finding aids related to LGBTQIA+ archival materials. The paper highlights key findings focused on how practitioners navigated the design and use of queer-specific finding aids with an emphasis on the tensions between historical terminology, various LGBTQIA+ identities, and the contemporary expectations of queer-inclusive language. Additionally, findings highlight how practitioners rely on their own personal embodied knowledge in conjunction with the knowledge of donors and queer community members to ensure ethical and affirming archival description. In particular, this emphasis on embodied knowledge highlighted a shift in ethical practice which, for many participants, departed from traditional archival praxis and required them to change their approach to the construction of finding aids. Finally, findings emphasize the importance of queer tools such as the Homosaurus and other queer reparative description initiatives, given their community-vetted nature. The paper concludes by identifying both theoretical and practical implications for the work and suggests future directions for research based on findings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09513-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144897170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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