Latent scrutiny: personal archives as perpetual mementos of the official gaze

Wilson, Jacqueline Z.; Golding, Frank

doi:10.1007/s10502-015-9255-3

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“…Whereas care leavers may have very few photographs, keepsakes or memory objects from childhood, if and when they request to view their records they are confronted with the product of a bureaucratized system that has methodically analysed their experiences and actions. As Australian care leavers Jacqueline Wilson and Frank Golding have observed, the ‘scrutiny’ of this ‘official gaze’ may be experienced as a dehumanizing form of surveillance (Wilson & Golding, 2016, 95). However, it may also be an extraordinarily rich memory resource, providing access to the minutiae of daily life from many decades ago (Darren, Participatory Workshop 1).…”

Section: Records and Recordkeeping Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Hoyle

Shepherd

Lomas

et al. 2020

Child & Family Social Work

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In family settings stories, photographs and memory objects support narratives of identity and belonging. Such resources are often missing for people who were in care as children. As a result, they may be unable to fill gaps in their memories or answer simple questions about their early lives. In these circumstances, they turn to the records created about them by social workers and care providers to reconstruct personal histories. Research suggests that thousands of requests to view records for this purpose are made each year in England under the subject access provisions of data protection legislation. This article reports the findings of MIRRA, a participatory research project on the memory and identity dimensions of social care recordkeeping. Drawing on data collected during interviews and focus groups with adult care leavers, the study explores the motives and experiences of careexperienced people who access their records in England. Findings show the practical and cultural challenges they face when doing so and the resulting impacts on wellbeing. The study suggests that the development of person-centred approaches to recordkeeping in social work, which focus on the perspectives and experiences of the individual, could better support the lifelong memory and identity needs of careexperienced people.

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Section: Records and Recordkeeping Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Hoyle

Shepherd

Lomas

et al. 2020

Child & Family Social Work

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“…Ray, the youth worker, commented on the way the scrapbook differed from the residents' digital files held at the hostel by being 'tangible' and something the residents produced themselves. In discussing the experiences of care-leavers in Australia, Wilson and Golding (2016) proposed that the children should have greater participation in the creation of the official records of their time in state care. The scrapbook at Roundabout perhaps offers an example of how participation in the creation of archives might be enacted.…”

Section: Disrupting Misrecognition and Maldistribution In Heritage Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

Action heritage: research, communities, social justice

Johnston

Marwood

2017

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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a department of archaeology, university of Sheffield, Sheffield, uK; b academic and learning Services, university of Sheffield, Sheffield, uK ABSTRACT Societies are unequal and unjust to varying degrees and heritage practitioners unavoidably work with, perpetuate and have the potential to change these inequalities. This article proposes a new framework for undertaking heritage research that can be applied widely and purposefully to achieve social justice, and which we refer to as action heritage. Our primary sources are semi-structured conversations we held with some of the participants in three heritage projects in South Yorkshire, UK: members of a hostel for homeless young people, a primary school, and a local history group. We examine 'disruptions' in the projects to understand the repositioning of the participants as researchers. The disruptions include introducing a scrapbook for personal stories in the homeless youth project and giving the school children opportunities to excavate alongside professional archaeologists. These disruptions reveal material and social inequalities through perceptible changes in how the projects were oriented and how the participants thought about the research. We draw on this empirical research and theorisations of social justice to develop a new framework for undertaking co-produced research. Action heritage is 'undisciplinary' research that privileges process over outcomes, and which achieves parity of participation between academic and community-based researchers through sustained recognition and redistribution.

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“…Registering institutions on a site such as Find & Connect serves a purpose that is both practical and symbolic: finding an entity about 'their' home makes it possible for a Care Leaver to validate childhood memories of 'care' , find trustworthy information about themselves and their families and to have evidence for accountability purposes (such as seeking compensation or redress). For some people (particularly those used to not being believed when recounting their childhood experiences in institutions), the information on Find & Connect can also provide vindication (see Wilson & Golding, 2015).…”

Section: Sources In Australian Libraries Relating To Care Leaversmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is a growing amount of literature about the potential 'affective ramifications' of accessing records, as well as guidance to help professionals to support Care Leavers through the process (e.g. Goddard et al, 2008;Golding, 2010;Wilson & Golding, 2015). Despite the fact that much of the literature providing guidance about good practice in 'supported release' is aimed at the social work profession, it contains valuable information for information professionals who have Care Leaver records in their custody (e.g.…”

Section: Trauma-informed Service Delivery In Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forgotten Australians in the library: resources relating to Care Leavers in Australian libraries^*

O’Neill

2016

The Australian Library Journal

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Find & Connect (www.findandconnect.gov.au), funded by the Australian government, is a national website documenting the records relating to the history of child welfare in Australia and providing information for people who lived in orphanages about how to access these vital records about their childhood. This article provides an overview of the range of library resources documented in the Find & Connect web resource. Libraries have material in their custody that has the potential to improve the identity, health and well-being of Care Leavers, and this article seeks to raise awareness about the significance of records to Care Leavers so that libraries can improve service delivery to this community.

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Latent scrutiny: personal archives as perpetual mementos of the official gaze

Cited by 41 publications

References 12 publications

Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Action heritage: research, communities, social justice

Forgotten Australians in the library: resources relating to Care Leavers in Australian libraries^*

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Latent scrutiny: personal archives as perpetual mementos of the official gaze

Cited by 41 publications

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Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Action heritage: research, communities, social justice

Forgotten Australians in the library: resources relating to Care Leavers in Australian libraries*

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