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Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice expands the burgeoning
literature on archival social justice and impact. Illuminating how
diverse factors shape the relationship between archives,
recordkeeping systems, and recordkeepers, this book depicts
struggles for different social justice objectives. Discussions and
debates about social justice are playing out across many
disciplines, fields of practice, societal sectors, and governments,
and yet one dimension cross-cutting these actors and engagement
spaces has remained unexplored: the role of recordkeeping and
archiving. To clarify and elaborate this connection, this volume
provides a rigorous account of the engagement of archives and
records-and their keepers-in struggles for social justice. Drawing
upon multidisciplinary praxis and scholarship, contributors to the
volume examine social justice from historical and contemporary
perspectives and promote impact methodologies that align with
culturally responsive, democratic, Indigenous, and transformative
assessment. Underscoring the multiplicity of transformative social
justice impacts influenced by recordmaking, recordkeeping, and
archiving, the book presents nine case studies from around the
world that link the past to the present and offer pathways towards
a more just future. Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice
will be an essential reading for researchers and students engaged
in the study of archives, truth and reconciliation processes,
social justice, and human rights. It should also be of great
interest to archivists, records managers, and information
professionals.
Open space in urban regions is fast disappearing, but it can still
be saved by coordinating man's design with the processes of nature.
The authors demonstrate here methods that permit better and more
profitable economic and industrial development, while raising the
quality of life and saving the environment. The problem is all
around us, David Wallace observes: "As metropolitan areas grow and
Megalopolis takes shape before our eyes, nearby open space where
nature predominates seems doomed. Forces apparently beyond our
control eliminate all traces of an untouched countryside, and
replace it with thousands and thousands and thousands of houses.
The pattern of ultimate suburban development finally removes the
last vestiges of woods, streams, thickets, and wildlife with the
filling of vacant lots carelessly left over from the first great
surge of growth. The individual houses that result art perhaps
pleasant enough in the micro-scale. But unrelievedly continuous
urbanization-even in the case where the individual parts are
attractive-appalls, bores, and numbs the senses. . . . Must it be
this way?" This study, based on research at the Institute of
Environmental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests
how the process of indiscriminate exploitation of open space can be
reversed through understanding and application of natural processes
in the environment. When these natural processes are understood,
planners can discriminate among land that should be retained as
open space in a natural state, land that can stand limited
development, and land that can be fully developed without
significantly affecting natural processes. Contributors: William G.
Grigsby, Ian McHarg, William H. Roberts, Ann Louise Strong, Nohad
A. Toulan, and David A. Wallace.
Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice expands the burgeoning
literature on archival social justice and impact. Illuminating how
diverse factors shape the relationship between archives,
recordkeeping systems, and recordkeepers, this book depicts
struggles for different social justice objectives. Discussions and
debates about social justice are playing out across many
disciplines, fields of practice, societal sectors, and governments,
and yet one dimension cross-cutting these actors and engagement
spaces has remained unexplored: the role of recordkeeping and
archiving. To clarify and elaborate this connection, this volume
provides a rigorous account of the engagement of archives and
records-and their keepers-in struggles for social justice. Drawing
upon multidisciplinary praxis and scholarship, contributors to the
volume examine social justice from historical and contemporary
perspectives and promote impact methodologies that align with
culturally responsive, democratic, Indigenous, and transformative
assessment. Underscoring the multiplicity of transformative social
justice impacts influenced by recordmaking, recordkeeping, and
archiving, the book presents nine case studies from around the
world that link the past to the present and offer pathways towards
a more just future. Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice
will be an essential reading for researchers and students engaged
in the study of archives, truth and reconciliation processes,
social justice, and human rights. It should also be of great
interest to archivists, records managers, and information
professionals.
This volume widens the perspective of the roles that records
play in society. As opposed to most writings in the discipline of
archives and records management which view records from cultural,
historical, and economical efficiency dimensions, this volume
highlights that one of the most salient features of records is the
role they play as sources of accountability--a component that often
brings them into daily headlines and into courtrooms. Struggles
over control, access, preservation, destruction, authenticity,
accuracy, and other issues demonstrate time and again that records
are not mute observers and recordings of activity. Rather, they are
frequently struggled over as objects of memory formation and
erasure.
The 14 powerful case studies focus around four closely related
themes--explanation, secrecy, memory, and trust. They demonstrate
how records compel, shape, distort, and recover social interactions
across space and time. The diverse range of case studies includes
the ownership of the Martin Luther King, Jr. papers, the
destruction of records on Nazi war criminals in Canada, the
politics of documents in the Iran-Contra affair, the failure of
records management in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the
publication of tobacco company documents on the World Wide Web,
access to records associated with the U.S. government's infamous
Tuskegee syphilis study, the role of the U.S. National Archives in
identifying assets looted by the Nazis in the wake of the
Holocaust, the destruction of public records by the South African
government during apartheid's final years, the construction of
foreign relations of the U.S. documentary histories, the forgery
corrupting recordkeeping systems, and the collapse of foreign
indigenous commercial banks.
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