The Australian Women's Archives Project

Creating and Co-curating Community Feminist Archives in a Post-custodial Age

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ID5854544
AutoresNikki Henningham (0000-0002-6634-192X), Joanne Evans (0000-0002-0837-765X), Helen Morgan (0000-0001-6040-8807)
Ano2017
Volume32
Fascículo91-92
Páginas91-107
Data de publicação2017-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08164649.2017.1357015
OpenAlexW2753849682
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas10

The Australian Women's Archives Project (AWAP) was established in 2000 by the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) as a response to the mounting problem of what to do with Australian women's records in a digital and post-custodial age. This article traces the AWAP's development within the changing context of archival science over that period. Using the insights of feminist archival theory it explores how a feminist approach to archival practice can inform thinking about how to manage community archives, empowering those who create them to participate in societal memory with their own voice and values. It shows how the AWAP is a fledgling example of where distinctions between archivist, records creator, subject and user are blurred in the quest for a space that facilitates co-creation of archival infrastructure

Aesthetics · Archival science · Archivist · Art · Context (archaeology · Digital Archives · Foundation (evidence · Library science · Media studies · Period (music · Political science · Records Management · Sociology · Subject (documents · Data Analysis and Archiving · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Gender Studies · History · Law