Archival Silences (eBook, PDF)

Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives
Redaktion: Moss, Michael; Thomas, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign 'silence' is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000385199
• Artikelnr.: 61335819

Autorenporträt

Michael Moss was professor emeritus of archival science at the University of Northumbria, he was previously research professor in archival studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, where he directed the Information Management and Preservation MSc programme. David Thomas was employed at the UK National Archives for most of his career, acting as Director of Technology from 2005 until his retirement in 2013. Subsequently he was a visiting professor at Northumbria University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Theorising the Silences
2. What are silences: the Australian example
3. Silent contemporary records: access to the archives of Special Investigation Commission in Iceland, 2010-2019
4. Noises in the Archives: Acknowledging the Present Yet Silenced Presence in Caribbean Archival Memory
5. Silenced and Unsilenced Memories: Archival Fonds of Brazil's Political Police, 1964-1985
6. Uncovering Archival Silences Through Photographs and Listening: Envisioning Archives as a Democratic Space
7. Silences in Malawi's Archives
8. Perceived Silence in the Turkish Archives: from the Ottoman Empire to Modern Republic
9. Silenced Archives and Archived Voices: Archival Resources for a History of Post-Independence India
10. The Voices of Children and Adolescents in the Archives
11. Diaries and Silence
12. Filling the Gaps
Afterword: Tales from the Sometimes 'Silent' Archives