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Archival Science
Call for Papers
Special issue:
Towards a Decolonial Archival Praxis
Guest Editors:
J.J.
Ghaddar,
Faculty of Information,
University of Toronto,
Canada
Michelle Caswell,
University of California, Los Angeles, US
This special
issue aims
to bring
together scholarship
that explores
the myriad
ways in
which archives and
the archival
profession have
been indelibly
shaped by
western imperial
and colonial
ventures.
These intertwined
pursuits that
began over
five centuries
ago continue
to animate
and structure every
aspect of
life on
a global
scale, as
does the
racism, heteropatriarchy,
ableism and
classism crucial to their operation. As part of the broader archival turn, a rich and multidisciplinary scholarship has explored these facets of archives, underscoring how archives, as touchstones of memory
and sources
for the
writing of
history; as
places of
knowledge classification,
organization and standardization;
and as
institutions from
which these
emanate to
the rest
of the
world; are technologies
of empire,
coloniality and
state. Reading
the colonial
archive(s) and
the records
of imperial powers
against and
along the
grain has
revealed the
archival encounter
as a
fraught and ambivalent
site for
the co-constitution
of the
west and
its myriad
colonized, racialized
others both within
and outside
European and
neo-European borders.
Scholars in
archival studies
have, in
turn, explored how
the legacies
of colonialism
and contemporary
structures of
empire complicate
claims over the
ownership and
custodianship of
archives; raise
questions about
the necessity
for archival rematriation
and reclamation;
call for
more expansive
notions of
provenance or
a dispensation
with provenance entirely; and encourage participatory and community-oriented archival practices. We seek
submissions that
build on
and elaborate
this scholarship
by considering
the multifaceted
and complex connections
between our
archival records,
collections, institutions,
and traditions,
on the one
hand, and
the need
for a
historically-informed decolonial
archival praxis
and a
reconceptualized archival imagination,
on the
other hand.
With this
issue, we
seek to
generate research
that helps
us imagine
both a
different way
of archiving and
a different
world to
be archived
by reflecting
on what
colonial legacies,
ideas and practices
are being
dismantled and
those that
require transformation.
Through such
reimaginings, we can
push our
scholarly and
professional practices
and thinking
toward a
more generous understanding
and deeper
commitment to
a decolonial
praxis in
our field.
We issue
this call
for proposals with
the theme
Toward a
Decolonial Archival
Praxis to
signal the
continued urgency
of challenging imperial,
colonial and
racial oppression
within our
educational, academic
and professional
institutions and
spaces; and
to reflect
on the
structure and
content of
the records
and collections we
archive, the
principles we
espouse, and
our intellectual
and professional
identities.
We welcome research that considers any aspect of western colonialism, neocolonialism, post- colonialism and imperialism in relation to specific archival theories, practices, collections or institutions.
We encourage
cross-disciplinary or
interdisciplinary work
and inquiries
that emerge from
or draw
on theories
and fields
within the
humanities and
social sciences
that are
little known
or used in
archival studies.
We particularly
welcome submissions
from Indigenous
authors, members
of racialized communities,
and from
authors originating
from or
working outside
North America.
•
Submission
deadline: 1st September
2018
•
Review
time: September 2018
to March
2018
Papers submitted
to this
special issue
for possible
publication must
be original
and must
not be under
consideration for
publication in
any other
journal or
conference. Previously
published or accepted
conference/workshop papers
must contain
at least
30% new
material to
be considered
for the special
issue (for
workshops 50%
new content
is required).
Submission of
a manuscript
implies that the
work described
has been
approved by
all co-authors,
if any,
as well
as by
the responsible authorities
– tacitly
or explicitly
– at
the institute
where the
work has
been carried
out.
Submissions
should be
made online
via the
Editorial Manager
System at http://www.editorialmanager.com/arcs/.
During submission
please select
article type
“SI: Decolonial
Archives”. All
manuscripts must
be prepared according
to the
journal publication
guidelines which
can also
be found
on the
website http://www.springer.com/10502.
Papers will
be reviewed
following the
journal standard
peer review process (single-blind).
Articles of various lengths will be accepted, but generally no more than 7,000-8,000 words.
Karen Anderson, PhD
Editor-in Chief, Archival Science
Professor Emerita, Archives and Information Science,
Department of Information Systems and Technology
Mid Sweden University
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