Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice

Introduction Introduction Archival social justice Archival social justice impact: origins Constructing new narratives of archival social justice impact Conclusion References Defining the relationship between archives and social justice Introduction Social justice in historical and contemporary perspective Framing social justice Defining social justice The rise of archival social justice Conclusion Notes References Methodologies for archival impact studies Introduction Definitions History of evaluation Types of archival impact Educational impact Economic impact Social impact Affective impact Critiques of experimental methods Critiques of impact measures in LIS Narrative methodologies Theoretical constructs of evaluation Note References SECTION 2: Preface to section 2: categorisations and patterns in the case studies Archives, records, and land restitution in South Africa Introduction Background Reviewing the numbers Restitution and social justice Records and archives Archival roles and responsibilities Conclusion Note References “Hang onto these words”: Indigenous title and the social meanings of archival custody “All I want to know is who I am”: archival justice for Australian care leavers The quest for records Care leaver campaigning for social and archival justice Responses from the Australian archival and recordkeeping community Find and Connect Web Resource Find and Connect access principles and best practice guidelines Evaluating the social justice impact of the Find and Connect Program Conclusion Coda Notes References Justice for the 96!: the impact of archives in the fight for justice for the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster Introduction Methods Hillsborough disaster Rescue operations Accusing the victims Inquiries, inquests, investigations, and trials Findings The Taylor inquiry Coroner’s inquests The challenges Stuart-Smith scrutiny Hillsborough independent panel The emergency response The Coroner’s inquest and the 3:15 pm cut off The police statements The media The impact What was different about the Hillsborough independent panel Time had passed Frame of reference Records Information access and the digital archives People who could find and interpret the records The people who fought for justice Conclusion Note References Social justice and historical accountability in Latin America: access to the records of the truth commissions in Chile Introduction Control and access to archives in post-dictatorial societies in Latin America The Chilean transition and access to archives Transitional justice and archival advocacy Londres 38, espacio de memorias and No Más Archivos Secretos Desclasificación Popular Conclusion Notes References Documenting the fight for the city: the impact of activist archives on anti-gentrification campaigns Introduction The archival turn in activism The 56a Infoshop archive Activist archiving within an anti-gentrification campaign Forming an anti-gentrification archive Mobilising the archive in the public sphere The social justice impact of anti-gentrification archives Note References Social justice struggles for rights, equality, and identity: The role of lesbian and gay archives Shared heritage, archives, and social movements Social justice struggles and the emergence of lesbian and gay archives Conclusion: Lesbian and gay archives and public history Notes References Social justice and hearing voices: co-constructing an archive of mental health recovery Co-constructing the mental health recovery archive Andrew’s perspective on creating the archive Stuart’s perspective on creating the archive Dolly’s perspective Peter’s perspective Anna’s perspective Challenging the psychiatric narrative: some contextual framing for the mental health recovery archive The formation of the psychiatric narrative Challenges to the psychiatric narrative through the rise of social movements The difference made by activist challenge to the psychiatric narrative Constituting archives testifying to lived experience Conclusions Notes References Archives “act back”: re-configuring Palestinian archival constellations and visions of social justice Introduction Unhinging modernity’s sovereign archives Archival formation and deployment “Buried treasure" and “archival rain drops”Discoveries andlas destiny Sovereign and popular archival cosmologies Activated archives Meta archival efficacies Archival “acting back” in the occupied territories “Old” inland “new” archival constellations Beyond “rights cultures”—archives and/as social repair Sovereign rites of passage Popular rites of social repair Vanguards and whose justice, whose cure?Acknowledgements Notes References Conclusion