Co‐curation

Archival interventions and voluntary sector records

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8360941
AutoresGeorgina Brewis (0000-0003-4273-7724, University College London), Angela Ellis Paine (0000-0002-4385-5098, Birmingham City University, autor de correspondencia), Irene Hardill (0000-0003-1287-0647, Northumbria University), Rose Lindsey (0000-0001-7271-9186, University of Southampton), Rob Macmillan (0000-0003-4329-3539, Sheffield Hallam University)
Año2023
Volumen55
Número3
Páginas332-339
Fecha de publicación2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArea (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/area.12768
OpenAlexW3213432502
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas24

There is a growing trend across the social sciences to engage with archives. Within human geography, this has stimulated a debate about the nature of archives, including moving from considering ‘archive as source’ to ‘archive as subject.’ We build on and extend this thinking, suggesting that an even more active appreciation of the dynamic nature of relationships between researchers, owners of records, and archival material is needed. This paper draws on an interdisciplinary study of voluntary action and welfare provision in England in the 1940s and 2010s to highlight how the different iterative processes involved in collaborative archival research are part of what we call co‐curation. Co‐curation involves the negotiated identification, selection, preparation, and interpretation of archival materials. This has implications for both research processes and outcomes

Action (physics) · Archival science · Data curation · Data science · Identification (biology) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Library science · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Voluntary sector · Computer Science · Data Analysis and Archiving · Ecology · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics