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- Title
Relational and person-centered approaches to archival practice and education.
- Authors
Sexton, Anna; Shepherd, Elizabeth; Duff, Wendy
- Abstract
In 2013 Terry Cook identified four paradigms that have shaped archival theory and praxis over the last 150 years: evidence, cultural memory, societal engagement, and identity and community. More recently, Jennifer Douglas, Mya Ballin, and Sadaf Ahmadbeigi (2021) identified a fifth emerging paradigm, Person-Centred Archival Theory and Praxis. Person-centred approaches to archival science shifts the discussion from a focus on records to a focus on "the people that create, keep, use and/or are represented in records." A person-centred archival approach can also be traced to calls to better understand and consider the needs of archival users (Rhee 2015, Duff 2002) and applications of trauma-informed approaches to recordkeeping which focus on the needs of archivists, recordkeepers and creators and users of archives (Laurent & Hart 2021). This paper argues that a person-centred approach to archival theory and practice must acknowledge the deep emotional impact of working with records and the people whose lives are captured in records and who create and use archives. This leads us to the concept of the 'traumatic potentiality' of records, the heart of the original contribution of this paper, and to considering how to embed such potentiality in a trauma-informed approach to archival education.
- Subjects
ARCHIVAL theory; COLLECTIVE memory; EMOTIONS; ARCHIVISTS; DOUGLAS, Jennifer
- Publication
Journal of Community Informatics, 2023, Vol 19, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1712-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15353/joci.v19i1.5234