Off the Record
Archive, Ruination and Postcolonial Affects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20072933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Srirupa Prasad (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 389-404 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003023326-30 |
| OpenAlex | W4282584351 |
| ISBN | 9781003023326 |
| Language | EN |
Archives should be considered an influential space in the production, circulation and exchange of affects. Archives become a field of intersecting affects – handling of records by archivists and archive staff members, reader/researcher receiving (or not), the touching of old yellowing documents and the realisation for the reader that they are one in a long line of readers who have held and read that document. Based on my personal experiences, memories of, and ethnographic notes at different archives/libraries of India in 2002, 2016 and 2017, this piece is about the co-formation of archives and affects. It is a history of the present, which focuses on something (affect) that is only recently being talked about in relation to archives and their afterlives
Archaeology · Art · Ethnography · Realisation · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · History
| Highly cited | No |
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