Disputed archival heritage
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiv, 342 pp.
"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerging scholars in the field of archival studies, Disputed Archival Heritage extends and enriches the conversation that started with the earlier volume, Displaced Archives. Advancing novel theories and methods for understanding disputes and claims over archives, the volume includes chapters that focus on Indigenous records in settler colonial states; literary and community archives; sub-national and private sector displacements; successes in repatriating formerly displaced archives; comparisons with cultural objects seized by colonial powers; and the relationship between repatriation and reparations. Analysing key concepts such as joint heritage and provenance, the contributors unsettle Western understandings of records, place and ownership." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Disputed Archival Heritage / James Lowry, 3
PART I: PLACES AND SOVEREIGNTIES
1 'Joint Heritage': Provincializing an Archival Ideal / Riley Linebaugh, 19
2 'Provenance in Place': Crafting the Vienna Convention for Global Decolonization and Archival Repatriation / J.J. Ghaddar, 49
3 Re-placing Evidence: Locating archival displacement in the US Federal Acknowledgement Process / Maria Montenegro, 87
4 Ngaadzoke Please: A Dare/Inkundla for the Rhodesian Army Records, Forget Chaterera-Zambuko, 120
PART II: BORDERS AND DIASPORAS
5 Below the Nation State: Power Asymmetry and Jurisdictional Boundaries around the Archives of the Madeira Archipelago / L. S. Ascensão de Macedo, M. C. Vieira Freitas and C. Guardado da Silva, 137
6 Records in Motion: The New York Times and the 'ISIS Files' / Rebecca Abby Whiting, 171
7 Archival Entanglements: Colonial Rule and Records in Namibia / Ellen Namhila and Werner Hillebrecht, 192
8 Diasporic, Displaced, Alienated or Shared: Caribbean Literary Archives / John Aarons and Helena Leonce, 211
PART III: TOWARDS HOME
9 Displaced, Un-placed and Re-placed: Armenian Archives in the US / Anne J. Gilliland and Mariana Hovhannissyan, 233
10 Claims for Colonial Objects and Claims for Colonial Archives: Can the Two Meet? / Jos van Beurden, 262
11 The Repatriation of Surinamese Archives from the Netherlands / Frans van Dijk and Rita Tjien Fooh, 282
12 Value Displaced, Value Re/Claimed: Reparations, Shared Heritage and Caribbean Archival Records / Stanley Griffin, 304
PART I: PLACES AND SOVEREIGNTIES
1 'Joint Heritage': Provincializing an Archival Ideal / Riley Linebaugh, 19
2 'Provenance in Place': Crafting the Vienna Convention for Global Decolonization and Archival Repatriation / J.J. Ghaddar, 49
3 Re-placing Evidence: Locating archival displacement in the US Federal Acknowledgement Process / Maria Montenegro, 87
4 Ngaadzoke Please: A Dare/Inkundla for the Rhodesian Army Records, Forget Chaterera-Zambuko, 120
PART II: BORDERS AND DIASPORAS
5 Below the Nation State: Power Asymmetry and Jurisdictional Boundaries around the Archives of the Madeira Archipelago / L. S. Ascensão de Macedo, M. C. Vieira Freitas and C. Guardado da Silva, 137
6 Records in Motion: The New York Times and the 'ISIS Files' / Rebecca Abby Whiting, 171
7 Archival Entanglements: Colonial Rule and Records in Namibia / Ellen Namhila and Werner Hillebrecht, 192
8 Diasporic, Displaced, Alienated or Shared: Caribbean Literary Archives / John Aarons and Helena Leonce, 211
PART III: TOWARDS HOME
9 Displaced, Un-placed and Re-placed: Armenian Archives in the US / Anne J. Gilliland and Mariana Hovhannissyan, 233
10 Claims for Colonial Objects and Claims for Colonial Archives: Can the Two Meet? / Jos van Beurden, 262
11 The Repatriation of Surinamese Archives from the Netherlands / Frans van Dijk and Rita Tjien Fooh, 282
12 Value Displaced, Value Re/Claimed: Reparations, Shared Heritage and Caribbean Archival Records / Stanley Griffin, 304
