Epistemologies of the archive: toward a critique of archival reason

Lustig, Jason

doi:10.1007/s10502-019-09313-z

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“…Politically, archives are the result of the practice of collecting information that is filtered and classified in order to allow the authorities to control resources, both natural and human in a large area that cannot be directly accessed [7]. The process of forming archives was later called tacit narratives of the archives by Ketelaar [8], epistemic things by Rheinberger, as quoted by Lustig when describing archives as the objects of history that are not found "in nature" but are actively cultivated and curated [9].…”

Section: What Is Archives and How It Work?mentioning

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Problems in ‘Accessing’ Colonial Archives for Indonesian History Department Student

Mulya¹,

Bramantya²

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Historical research in Indonesia, especially during the colonial era, cannot be separated from the Dutch colonial archives. However, not many researchers or students were interested in using colonial sources for various reasons. Precisely with colonial archives, researchers will find knowledge both written and implied through analysis of colonial sources to strengthen research. The writing of this article uses an archival approach and qualitative descriptive methods and analysis of archival guides and digital innovations to access the Dutch East Indies colonial archives as an alternative to expand the research topics of history students in Indonesia. Finally, colonial archives as historical sources provide flexibility for researchers to explore, relate, and critique the information contained in colonial archives. Therefore, researchers or students who are conducting research in the colonial era must take advantage of the archives of the Dutch colonial government because without them we do not know anything about the past or events that occurred in the colonial era.

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Section: What Is Archives and How It Work?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Problems in ‘Accessing’ Colonial Archives for Indonesian History Department Student

Mulya¹,

Bramantya²

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…Yet, in the words of the rapper Rakim, "it ain't where you're from, it' s where you're at that counts." 47 In other words, what matters most may not so much be a case of where you look from but rather how you look at these relations. In the next section, the focus is on three separable but interlinked themes related to navigating the challenges of decentring both socialist Yugoslavia and, to an extent, the Non-Aligned Movement itself.…”

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Yugocentrism and the Study of the Non-Aligned Movement

Stubbs

2021

Hist. flux (Online)

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There has been a renewed scholarly interest in recent years concerning the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). This text addresses some of the challenges posed by focusing on NAM through a lens of Yugocentrism that is reliant on socialist Yugoslav sources alone. To reinsert socialist Yugoslavia into a global historiography, one needs to perform a double movement: The first part concerns bringing Yugoslavia back into global social relations; the second part concerns decentring its positionality and ensuring that other sites of analysis and struggle, and the relations between them, are taken into consideration. Seeing NAM as a prefigurative, multi-nodal, networked community rather than a traditional international organization suggests that privileging one node at the expense of others will lead to a distorted and incomplete analysis. This paper addresses the complex relationship between the Bandung Afro-Asian conference of April 1955 and the Belgrade NAM summit of September 1961. NAM and the G-77 are also studied as overlapping groupings in terms of membership and objectives. The paper contributes to the development of a critical decolonial historiography of the Cold War period that addresses the need for multi-sited, para-sited, and meta-historiographies by going beyond Yugocentrism whilst still retaining a nuanced concern with global Yugoslavia across different conjunctures.

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“…Writing, photographing, creating artefacts or putting these together in a collection are all processes of selection and framing, fed by creators' preconceptions and ideas as well as larger societal discourses. Written notes are often erroneous, and any source can misrepresent events or ideas (Lustig 2019). Any information can be kept in ways deemed more suitable or favourable to the ruler.…”

Section: Archival Order and Colonial Powermentioning

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Digital Archives and Collections

Müller

2021

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Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination. It also sheds light on born-digital, community-based archives, which have established themselves as new actors in the field. Based on anthropological fieldwork, the chapters in the book trace digital archives from technical advancements and postcolonial initiatives to programming alternatives, editing content, and active use of digital archives.

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Epistemologies of the archive: toward a critique of archival reason

Cited by 6 publications

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Problems in ‘Accessing’ Colonial Archives for Indonesian History Department Student

Problems in ‘Accessing’ Colonial Archives for Indonesian History Department Student

Yugocentrism and the Study of the Non-Aligned Movement

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