Co‐curation: Archival interventions and voluntary sector records

BREWIS, Georgina, ELLIS PAINE, Angela, HARDILL, Irene, LINDSEY, Rose and MACMILLAN, Rob (2021). Co‐curation: Archival interventions and voluntary sector records. Area.

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Abstract

Abstract: 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.

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Additional Information: ** Article version: VoR ** From Wiley via Jisc Publications Router ** Licence for VoR version of this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ **Journal IDs: issn 0004-0894; issn 1475-4762 **Article IDs: publisher-id: area12768 **History: published 29-11-2021; accepted 21-10-2021; rev-recd 15-06-2021; submitted 27-11-2020
Uncontrolled Keywords: SPECIAL SECTION, archives, co‐curation, England, historical, voluntary action, voluntary sector
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12768
SWORD Depositor: Colin Knott
Depositing User: Colin Knott
Date Deposited: 29 Nov 2021 10:30
Last Modified: 29 Nov 2021 10:30
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/29407

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