Toward a survivor-centered approach to records documenting human rights abuse: lessons from community archives

Caswell, Michelle

doi:10.1007/s10502-014-9220-6

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“…An initial scoping pilot was conducted in the spring of 2017 in partnership with the CLA, who were instrumental in ensuring that the research was oriented towards the perspectives and viewpoints of care leavers. This orientation was central to the epistemological approach of the project which sought to amplify the voices of people otherwise marginalised in recordkeeping processes (Caswell 2014). An advisory group, which met three times throughout the study, ensured input from representatives in social work, information governance, social policy and associated academic fields.…”

Section: Mirra: Memory-identity-rights In Records-accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping

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In 2019, there were over 75,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in England and Wales. Recent estimates suggest that up to half a million British people were in state or voluntary care as children, around 1% of the adult population. While individual experiences vary enormously by time and place, care-experienced people share in common the intensive documentation of their lives by social workers, educators, health professionals and associated practitioners. A complex, fragmented legislative and regulatory framework governs the creation and use of these records at the national level. Under UK law, a 'care file' must be retained for at least 75 years, so that a substantial legacy of care data is held across the public, voluntary and private sectors. MIRRA: Memory-Identity-Rights in Records-Access, a participatory research project co-produced with care leavers, investigated recordkeeping practices in child social care from multiple perspectives. Interviews, focus groups and workshops with stakeholders identified critical failings in the creation, use, management and access to care records, which do not account for the needs and capabilities of multiple stakeholders. These failings have a direct impact on the well-being and health of care-experienced people throughout their lives. MIRRA researchers developed a human-centred participatory recordkeeping approach to child social care, which this article describes. The approach combines the participatory continuum model (Rolan in Arch Sci 17(3):195-225. https ://doi.org/10.1007/ s1050 2-016-9267-7, 2017 and the capabilities approach to social work, rooting child social care recordkeeping in information rights principles. The article makes a contribution to the literature that discusses archival science within a human rights and ethics framework and reflects on trauma-informed practice for information professionals. It also provides guidance on practice improvements for child social care recording.

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Section: Mirra: Memory-identity-rights In Records-accessmentioning

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Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping

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“…This led to the articulation of simultaneous multiple provenance as an alternative to the singular and linear provenance of traditional archival theory and to Scott's serial multiple provenance (Hurley 1994(Hurley , 2005a. Recently, some archivists have persuasively argued that subjects of recordsand especially of colonial records or records documenting human rights abusesmust be viewed as co-creators of records created about them (McKemmish et al 2011;Caswell 2014;Iacovino 2010;Evans et al 2015). A new and significant focus on archival decolonization calls attention to traditional ideas about provenance as inherently Western and suggests that Indigenous ways of knowing might be incommensurate with traditional archival concepts and principles (Brands & Gooda 2006;Fraser and Todd 2016;Genovese 2016;Nakata 2012;Ghaddar 2016).…”

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Decolonizing archival description: Can linked data help?

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McLellan

et al. 2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Archival description documents the provenance of records, their interrelationships, and the processes of their creation. The concept of archival provenance was first elaborated in the context of 19th‐century European archival institutions and reflects particular socio‐historical perspectives on the nature of records and recordkeeping. Decolonizing archival description is a necessity, not only because it contributes to the discoverability of Indigenous knowledge woven into records of shared provenance, but also because it disrupts traditional concepts of singular provenance, calls attention to complex processes of records creation, and permits more expansive understanding of record contexts. Linked data appears to (1) promise the ability to represent complex multiple provenances, (2) promote multiple perspectives on the creation of records and (3) allow archives and Indigenous communities to work together to implement what the First Nations Information Governance Centre has characterized as Indigenous ownership, control, access and possession of records of shared provenance. From a variety of perspectives, this panel provides a critical analysis of linked data as a candidate solution for decolonizing archival description.

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“…We note that these issues are also addressed through scholarship in the field of archival studies, including those oriented toward transitional justice collections (e.g. Caswell, 2010Caswell, , 2014McKemmish et al, 2011). However, the majority of archival scholarship in this area addresses the specialized concerns of professional archivists, with the aim of informing archival practice (e.g.…”

Section: The Growth Of Conflict and Post-conflict Transitional Justicmentioning

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Multi-Lifespan Information System Design in Support of Transitional Justice: Evolving Situated Design Principles for the Long(er) Term

2016

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Human societies face some significant problems-such as those tied to limitations of the human psyche, to tears in the social fabric, and to slow-moving natural processes-that defy rapid solution. Correspondingly, information systems that help to address these problems also develop over long(er) periods of time. Yet contemporary research and industry information system design is held to increasingly ambitious project deadlines. Research that engages with long(er) term design processes from diverse perspectives and theoretical orientations is needed. Early efforts of this ilk in the human-computer interaction community can be found around domains such as conflict and postconflict situations, crisis informatics, collapse informatics, cultural heritage and sustainability. The work reported here joins this literature-in the context of recovering from genocide and the development of systems of transitional justice-and draws from the theoretical framing of multilifespan design. Specifically, we report on the first 8 years of a multi-lifespan information system design project-the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal-to support aspects of transitional justice in Rwanda. We offer a systematic presentation of the project's design principles and explicate the development of those guiding design principles through our engagement with a set of nine design challenges. We provide design reflections that pertain to information systems for transitional justice, conducting multi-lifespan information system design under shifting socio-political and technical conditions, and engaging with value sensitive design. We conclude with our contributions and open questions. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTSThrough this submission we:• Model the type of reflective scholarship that can inform and enrich longer-term research projects.• Report on the first 8 years of a multi-lifespan design project-the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal.• Address the problem of designing an information system pertaining to long-term processes and outcomes of transitional justice systems. • Review related information systems for transitional justice, the Rwandan context and our prior work.• Describe our design approach, including a systematic presentation of the project's guiding design principles. • Explicate the development of those guiding design principles through our engagement with a set of nine design challenges. • Demonstrate how guiding principles can provide one conceptual tool both to evoke and resolve value tensions throughout a design process. • Demonstrate the roles political and social change, shifting perspectives and time (including pause) play in longer-term design processes. • Demonstrate how well-designed systems have the potential to make information more accessible and comprehensible to the people who confront injustice, now and well into the future. • Articulate open questions concerning how to ethically engage multi-lifespan design work.

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Toward a survivor-centered approach to records documenting human rights abuse: lessons from community archives

Cited by 58 publications

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Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping

Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping

Decolonizing archival description: Can linked data help?

Multi-Lifespan Information System Design in Support of Transitional Justice: Evolving Situated Design Principles for the Long(er) Term

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