Recent scholarship in archival studies has increasingly attended to affect and emotion, yet love remains insufficiently theorized and difficult to accommodate within dominant archival frameworks. Archival practices, particularly those surrounding personal, family, and community archives, are often deeply shaped by love as a motivating force, a form of labor, and…
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Relational Archives: Family Photographs as Sites of Decolonial Pedagogy This paper conceptualizes family photographs as generative and relational sites for decolonial pedagogy and archival research. Positioned at the intersection of public history, visual culture, and critical archival studies, it advances a framework that approaches family photographs as transdisciplinary and transhistorical…
Leave a CommentAt once, our proposed workshop looks forward and back in time. We consider the future of personal and community archiving amidst the rise of fickle technology, generative AI for text and image generation, and constant pushes for content rather than intentional preservation and creation. For instance: the ouroboros of “AI…
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