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Decolonial Archival Futures (Paperback)
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Decolonial Archival Futures (Paperback)
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Providing examples of successful approaches to unsettling Western
archival paradigms from Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and
Australia, this book showcases vital community archival work that
will illuminate decolonial archival practices for archivists,
curators, heritage practitioners, and others responsible for the
stewardship of materials by and about Indigenous communities.
Simply put, decolonial archival practices involve thinking about
and consciously changing how historical knowledge is produced,
communicated, and preserved. And though it is especially critical
that scholars and archivists who work with records by and about
Indigenous people critically consider the implications of their
work, this perspective is an essential one for all members of the
profession. By examining archival practices that push against and
actively counter settler colonialism, this book challenges
non-Indigenous practitioners to consider constructs of knowledge,
which histories we tell, and how the past is presented. Guided by
the authors’ incisive synthesis of theory and current practice,
readers will learn where Western archival practice is situated in
relation to the colonial histories of Canada, the United States,
Australia, and New Zealand, and the ways in which archival
structures have reinforced colonial relationships; a working
definition of decolonial archival practice, which is rooted in
concepts of community, reciprocity, and a desire to actively resist
colonial recordkeeping practices; the implications of this approach
for policy making, collection development, and arrangement and
description; methods for reframing or reworking original order and
provenance using digital technology, community participation, and
removing hierarchical structures in order to meet the needs of
Indigenous communities; examples of community-driven descriptive
practices, in which Indigenous knowledge and languages are infused
into archival description at both the fonds and file level; how the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
(UNDRIP), the Protocols for Native American Archival Material, the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library and Information
Resources Network Protocols, and other cultural stewardship
protocols can be implemented within archival practice; and more
about the relationship building work that settler communities and
researchers still need to do, demonstrated using examples of
partnerships rooted in Indigenous knowledge structures, kinship
ties, and relationships with the land.
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