‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: community archives and the importance of representation

Caswell, Michelle; Migoni, Alda Allina; Geraci, Noah; Cifor, Marika

doi:10.1080/23257962.2016.1260445

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“…Historians and archivists play an active role in shaping history and collective memory by choosing what to document, communicate, or make accessible to the public. Therefore, it is essential to closely examine which stories are being told, how they are being told, and by whom they are being told, because there are profound negative consequences of absence and misrepresentation in mainstream media and archives (Caswell, Migoni, Geraci, & Cifor, 2017).…”

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Disrupt, Defy, and Demand: Movements Toward Multiculturalism at the University of Oregon, 1968-2015

Patterson¹

2020

BRE

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This essay explores the history of activism among students of color at the University of Oregon from 1968 to 2015. These students sought to further democratize and diversify curriculum and student services through various means of reform. Beginning in 1968 with the Black Student Union's demands and proposals for sweeping institutional reform, which included the proposal for a School of Black Studies, this research examines how the Black Student Union created a foundation for future activism among students of color in later decades. Coalitions of affinity groups in the 1990s continued this activist work and pressured the university administration and faculty to adopt a more culturally pluralistic curriculum. This essay also includes a brief historical examination of the state of Oregon and the city of Eugene, Oregon, and their well-documented history of racism and exclusion. This brief examination provides necessary historical context and illuminates how the University of Oregon's sparse policies regarding race reflect the state's historic lack of diversity.

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Section: Motivations and Purposementioning

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Disrupt, Defy, and Demand: Movements Toward Multiculturalism at the University of Oregon, 1968-2015

Patterson¹

2020

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“…330-331) Evidential records participate in memory work. This is why we must interrogate, as Michelle Caswell, Ricardo Punzalan, and T.-Kay Sangwand (2017) discuss in "Critical Archival Studies: An Introduction," the context of record creation and the powerdynamics that come into play (Caswell, Allina Migoni, Geraci, & Cifor, 2017). Additionally, Katherine Hite (2011) points to the link between social memory and the politics inherent in which groups participate in the creation of the memory surrounding an event:…”

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“…This is because with every archival decision that is made, from how our records are created, described, organized, stored, made accessible, and preserved, the focus needs to be on centralizing the interests and well-being of the populations we aim to support. LOUD's archival project must be community-centric: A means for community self-representation, identity construction, and empowerment (Caswell, Allina Migoni, et al, 2017).…”

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"A LOUD response to Zero Tolerance"

Livier¹

2019

InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies

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My refusal to name him in a consistent manner is a deliberate act of resistance. 2 I am not speaking for the group, but sharing my own learning process during the course of our activities. Though, admittedly, at times, this line might seem blurred.3 Yareli Arizmendi quote emailed to LOUD team on Aug. 16, 2018. [Edit by author.] Zero Tolerance was officially announced by Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, on April 6, 2018 (United States Department of Justice, 2018). However, officials had been discussing the scheme to tear children from their parents as a deterrent strategy for border crossers more than a year earlier.In a March 7, 2017 interview on CNN's "The Situation Room," Wolf Blitzer asked Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly:Are Department of Homeland Security personnel going to separate the children from their moms and dads?To which Kelly replied: Yes . . . . I am considering exactly that. They will be well cared for as we deal with their parents.

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“…This resonates with "a feminist ethics of care approach" to archives, as advocated by Caswell and Marika Cifor, emphasizing how archivists, scholars, and all concerned parties in a web of relationships have "an affective responsibility to responsively empathize with each of the stakeholders." 54 According to McKemmish "oral forms of records, literature, art, artefacts, the built environment, landscape, dance, ceremonies, and rituals" have hitherto by and large been "excluded from the professional meanings given to record, archive, and archives. "…”

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Activating Dance Records. Conceptualizing research into the Swedish, Nordic and global archives pertaining to the Russian dancer Anna Robenne

Rosen

2018

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This article explores the following research question:In what ways can activations of dance records (archived materials and other recordings of activities) be conceptualized to contribute to the making of a critically productive dance history in the digital age? Drawing on an extensive study of the Russian dancer Anna Robenne, the article focuses on the archival explorations (or road trip) as such, and in particular the multifaceted ways in which the records themselves can be active agents in processes of memory making and history production. Adopting recent theoretical developments concerning the concept of pluralization in archival studies, the exploration discards the conventional and rather static understanding of records as neutral containers of facts to emphasize instead an inclusive and infinitely evolving process. Working within an interdisciplinary archive-oriented realm, the author reflexively makes use of practices and methods belonging to both art history and classical and contemporary dance tradition. The article first maps recent pluralizing approaches within archival studies including re-theorizations of the key concepts of records, provenance, value and representation. It then conceptualizes archival activation through examples from the archival road trip. The article concludes by offering the reader clear arguments for archival pluralization in the form of intimate, invasive, and imaginary activation, and demonstrates the importance and relevance of closely, critically and imaginatively engaging with records. The article highlights the role the archive can play in breaking down cultural barriers and re-evaluating notions of dance historiography, heritage and cultural identity.

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‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: community archives and the importance of representation

Cited by 84 publications

References 39 publications

Disrupt, Defy, and Demand: Movements Toward Multiculturalism at the University of Oregon, 1968-2015

Disrupt, Defy, and Demand: Movements Toward Multiculturalism at the University of Oregon, 1968-2015

"A LOUD response to Zero Tolerance"

Activating Dance Records. Conceptualizing research into the Swedish, Nordic and global archives pertaining to the Russian dancer Anna Robenne

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