Archival research

Unravelling Space/Time/Matter Entanglements and Fragments

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2403608
AutoresMaria Tamboukou (0000-0002-6380-4415, University of East London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen14
Número5
Páginas617-633
Fecha de publicación2014-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468794113490719
OpenAlexW1992043786
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas10

In recent years, archival research in the social sciences is emerging as a vibrant field of qualitative research, with contributions from a range of disciplinary fields, epistemological standpoints, theoretical insights and methodological approaches. In this article, I explore archival research strategies in life-history research, drawing on my experience of working at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas at Austin, reading the letters of Dora Carrington (1893-1932), an English painter, who lived and worked in the peripheries of the Bloomsbury group. The archive in my analysis is theorized as a spatial and discursive apparatus of experimentation, whose configuration has an impact on the type of data and the kind of knowledges that will derive from it. Drawing on neo-materialist approaches in feminist science studies, what I suggest is that the researcher's questions, interpretations, theoretical insights and analytical tropes emerge as intra-actions between space/time/matter relations and forces within the archive

Discipline · Epistemology · Linguistics · Materialism · Posthumanism · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics