The Remaking of Archival Values (Routledge Studies in Archives) - Hardcover

Hoyle, Victoria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367478676 ISBN 13: 9780367478674

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

The Remaking of Archival Values posits that archival theory and practice are fields in flux, and that recent critical archival discourse that addresses neoliberalism, racism, and the legacies of colonialism and patriarchy represents a disruption not only to established principles but also to the values that underpin them.

Using critical discourse analysis and comparing theory and practice from the UK and the Anglophone world, Hoyle explores the challenges faced by scholars, institutions, organisations, and practitioners in embedding new values. She demonstrates how persistent underlying discursive structures about archives have manifested from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Qualitative and participatory research in the UK shows how conceptions of archival value arise, are expressed, and become authorised in practice at international, national, and local levels. Considering what might be learnt from similar debates in public history and cultural heritage studies, the book asks if and how dominant epistemologies of the archive can be dismantled amidst systems of power that resist change.

The Remaking of Archival Values is relevant to researchers and students in the field of archival and information studies, as well as practitioners who work with archives around the world. It will also speak to the interests of those working in the fields of cultural heritage, archaeology, museum studies, public history, and gender and race studies.

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About the Author

Victoria Hoyle is Lecturer in Public History and Director of the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past at the University of York. She formerly worked as an archivist in local government.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367478676
• ISBN 13: 9780367478674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242