The Private in the Public Archive

Dever, M

The Private in the Public Archive

Dever, M

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Publisher:: Peter Lang Publishing
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Revealing Privacy: Debating the Understandings of Privacy, 2012, pp. 19 - 29
Issue Date:: 2012

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dc.contributor.author	Dever, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-8646	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Carucci, M	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Revealing Privacy: Debating the Understandings of Privacy, 2012, pp. 19 - 29	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9783631621288	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/115673
dc.description.abstract	Distinctions between public and private — however problematic and contested — turn on notions of borders or boundaries and this essay examines approaches to collections of private and, in some cases, highly personal papers that have found their way into public repositories. These private/public papers possess different qualities and pose different challenges from those associated with preserving and researching administrative or government records. I ask what makes an archived document ‘private’? What protocols govern scholarly access to these particular elements of the archival record? Finally, and more significantly, what are the effects of this categorization? I conclude by considering how the productivity of the ‘private’ may be bound up with questions of value.	en_US
dc.publisher	Peter Lang Publishing	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Revealing Privacy: Debating the Understandings of Privacy	en_US
dc.title	The Private in the Public Archive	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Teaching and Learning)
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Abstract:

Distinctions between public and private — however problematic and contested — turn on notions of borders or boundaries and this essay examines approaches to collections of private and, in some cases, highly personal papers that have found their way into public repositories. These private/public papers possess different qualities and pose different challenges from those associated with preserving and researching administrative or government records. I ask what makes an archived document ‘private’? What protocols govern scholarly access to these particular elements of the archival record? Finally, and more significantly, what are the effects of this categorization? I conclude by considering how the productivity of the ‘private’ may be bound up with questions of value.

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