Archive Fan-Fiction

Experimental Archive Research Methodologies and Feminist Epistemological Tactics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4852118
AutoresHolly Pester (University of Essex, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume115
Fascículo1
Páginas114-129
Data de publicação2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/s41305-017-0042-2
OpenAlexW2619246313
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas16

This essay proposes that subcultural practices such as gossip and fan writing are feminist epistemologies that can form radical archive inquiry and knowledge production, and creative outputs. Drawing on feminist new materialism and archive theory, I develop a set of principles for practice-based research methodologies that incorporate a researcher's intersubjective relationship with archive matter (e.g. records, documents, classification systems, social-material contexts) and consider the production of knowledge from such research as forms of tabulation. Fabulation here is seen as part of a critically transgressive epistemological stance that expands feminist critiques of universalising master narratives and archive orthodoxies. My proposition, formed in part through a residency in the Woman's Art Library in London, is to name such research gestures 'archive fanfiction', where experimental and practice-oriented method moves with feminist politics and activism

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Feminism · Gesture · Gossip · Historical materialism · Linguistics · Literature · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Narrative · Politics · Proposition · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Data Analysis and Archiving · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Gender Studies · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology