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Author |
: Hugh A. Taylor |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810847712 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081084771X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining Archives by : Hugh A. Taylor
Hugh A. Taylor is one of the most important thinkers in the English-speaking world of archives. A retired civil servant and archival educator, he was named to the prestigious Order of Canada, his nation's highest civilian award. The fifteen essays in this volume are presented in chronological order so that readers may appreciate the broadening evolution and rich interconnections in Taylor's thought as these occurred over more than three decades. These essays link archives to social life and contemporary ideas. Long before postmodern scholars' recent fascination with 'the archive, ' Taylor was intent on constructing archives anew, imagining them as places where archivists connect their records with social issues, with new media and technologies, with the historical tradition of archives, with the earth's ecological systems, and with broader spiritual meaning. Also included are two original essays by editors Terry Cook and Gordon Dodds
Author |
: Scott Cline |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1945246715 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781945246715 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Archival Virtue by : Scott Cline
Author |
: Jeannette A. Bastian |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 816 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1634000595 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781634000598 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decolonizing the Caribbean Record by : Jeannette A. Bastian
Decolonizing the Caribbean Record: An Archives Reader is a compendium of forty essays by archivists and academics within and outside of the Caribbean region that address challenges of collecting, representing and preserving the records and cultural expressions of former colonial societies, exploring the contribution of these records to nation-building. How the power of the archives can be subverted to serve the oppressed rather than the oppressors, the colonized rather than the colonizers, is the central theme of this Reader. This collection seeks to disrupt traditional notions of archives, instead re-imagining records within the context of Caribbean cultures and identities where the oral may be privileged over the written, the creative design over text, the marginal over the mainstream. Envisioned initially as a foundational text that supports the archives education program at the University of the West Indies and documents the history and development of archives and records in the Caribbean, this volume addresses such issues as oral traditions, records repatriation, community archives, cultural forms and format and diasporic collections. Although focused on the Caribbean region, the essays, ranging from the theoretical to the practice-based to the personal are applicable to the global archival concerns of all decolonized societies.
Author |
: Jed Rasula |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262681315 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262681315 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining Language by : Jed Rasula
When works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Stein's Tender Buttons were first introduced, they went so far beyond prevailing linguistic standards that they were widely considered "unreadable," if not scandalous. Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery take these and other examples of twentieth-century avant-garde writing as the starting point for a collection of writings that demonstrates a continuum of creative conjecture on language from antiquity to the present. The anthology, which spans three millennia, generally bypasses chronology in order to illuminate unexpected congruities between seemingly discordant materials. Together, the writings celebrate the scope and prodigality of linguistic speculation in the West going back to the pre-Socratics.
Author |
: Michelle Caswell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 2021-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000386066 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000386066 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urgent Archives by : Michelle Caswell
Urgent Archives argues that archivists can and should do more to disrupt white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy beyond the standard liberal archival solutions of more diverse collecting and more inclusive description. Grounded in the emerging field of critical archival studies, this book uncovers how dominant western archival theories and practices are oppressive by design, while looking toward the the radical politics of community archives to envision new liberatory theories and practices. Based on more than a decade of ethnography at community archives sites including the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA), the book explores how members of minoritized communities activate records to build solidarities across and within communities, trouble linear progress narratives, and disrupt cycles of oppression. Caswell explores the temporal, representational, and material aspects of liberatory memory work, arguing that archival disruptions in time and space should be neither about the past nor the future, but about the liberatory affects and effects of memory work in the present. Urgent Archives extends the theoretical range of critical archival studies and provides a new framework for archivists looking to transform their practices. The book should also be of interest to scholars of archival studies, museum studies, public history, memory studies, gender and ethnic studies and digital humanities.
Author |
: Jenny Rice |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2020-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814214355 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814214350 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Awful Archives by : Jenny Rice
An exploration of exaggerated cases of conspiracy theories which helps to reveal why traditional modes of argument fail against unwarranted, unsound, or untrue evidence.
Author |
: Lawrence Thornton |
Publisher |
: Bantam |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 1991-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780553345797 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0553345796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining Argentina by : Lawrence Thornton
“Remarkable . . . deeply inventive . . . Thorton has imagined Argentina truly; his inspired fable troubles and feeds our own intriguing imagining.”—Los Angeles Times Imagining Argentina is set in the dark days of the late 1970's, when thousands of Argentineans disappeared without a trace into the general's prison cells and torture chambers. When Carlos Ruweda's wife is suddenly taken from him, he discovers a magical gift: In waking dreams, he had clear visions of the fates of “the disappeared.” But he cannot “imagine” what has happened to his own wife. Driven to near madness, his mind cannot be taken away: imagination, stories, and the mystical secrets of the human spirit. Praise for Imagining Argentina “A harrowing, brilliant novel.”—The New Yorker “A powerful new novel . . . Thorton seems to have wedded his study of such writers as Borges and Marquez with thy his own instinctive gift for metaphor, and in doing so, created his own brand of magical realism”—The New York Times “Imagining Argentina is a slim volume filled with beautiful writing. It is an exciting adventure story. It is a haunting love story. And it is a story for all time.”—Detroit Free Press “The writing is crystalline, the metaphors compelling . . . Its central theme is universal.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “In a time when much North American fiction is contained by crabbed realism, Thorton takes for his material one of the bleaker recent instances of human cruelty, sees in it the enduring nobility of the human spirit and imagines a book that celebrates that spirit.”—The Washington Post Book World “A powerful first novel and a manifesto for the memorializing power of literature.”—The New York Times Book Review “A profoundly hopeful book.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Author |
: Regina Lee Blaszczyk |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2000-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801861934 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801861932 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining Consumers by : Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Tells the story of American consumer society from the perspective of mass-market manufacturers and retailers. Case studies illuminate the actions of decision-makers in key firms, including the Homer Laughlin China Company, the Kohler Company and Corning Glass works.
Author |
: Veronica E. Aplenc |
Publisher |
: Purdue University Press |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2023-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781612498140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1612498140 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining Slovene Socialist Modernity by : Veronica E. Aplenc
After the Second World War, Yugoslavia’s small regional cities represented a challenge for the new socialist state. These cities’ older buildings, local historic sites, and low-quality housing clashed with socialism’s promises and ideals. How would the state transform these cities’ everyday neighborhoods? In the Slovene republic’s capital city of Ljubljana, the Trnovo neighborhood embodied this challenge through its modest housing, small medieval section, vast gardens, acclaimed interwar architecture, and iconic local reputation. Imagining Slovene Socialist Modernity explores how urban planners, architects, historic preservationists, neighborhood residents, and even folklorists transformed this beloved neighborhood into a Slovene socialist city district. Aplenc demonstrates that this urban redesign centered on republic-level interpretations of a Yugoslav socialist built environment, versus a re-envisioned Slovene national past or design style. This interdisciplinary study sheds light on how Yugoslav state socialism operated at the republic level, within a decentralized system, and on the diverse forces behind success or failure. With its focus on vernacular architecture, small-scale historic sites, single-family homes, and illegal housing, this book expands our understanding of the everyday built environment in socialist cities.
Author |
: Kandice Chuh |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2003-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822331403 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822331407 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagine Otherwise by : Kandice Chuh
DIVA critical examination of what constitutes the varied positions grouped together as Asian American, seen in relation to both American and transnational forces./div