Decolonising Archives: Indigenous Challenges to Record Keeping in ‘Reconciling’ Settler Colonial States

Luker, T

Decolonising Archives: Indigenous Challenges to Record Keeping in ‘Reconciling’ Settler Colonial States

Luker, T

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Citation:: Australian Feminist Studies, 2017, 32 (91-92), pp. 108 - 125
Issue Date:: 2017-04-03

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dc.contributor.author	Luker, T https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-4791	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:06:37Z
dc.date.issued	2017-04-03	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Australian Feminist Studies, 2017, 32 (91-92), pp. 108 - 125	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0816-4649	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/116107
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Feminist and queer engagements with archives and archival theory have emphasised the affective dimensions of archival processes, particularly the meaning and place of archives when they concern marginalised people and intimate lives. In settler colonial contexts such as Australia and Canada, these ways of thinking about archives have been influential in responding to histories of removal, institutionalisation and abuse of Indigenous children. This article investigates the importance of feminist engagements with archives and historiography in ‘reconciling’ settler colonial states, with attention to sites of archival contention. Feminist modes of history that foreground affect in the formation of public culture need to take account of divergent views regarding the propriety of archival records in ‘reconciling’ settler colonial states. Indigenous peoples’ mistrust of state and institutional archives, demands for control of archives and legal actions for destruction of records, as well as establishment of autonomous archives, all contribute to the important and fraught process of decolonising settler colonial archives.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130101954
dc.relation.ispartof	Australian Feminist Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/08164649.2017.1357011	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Gender Studies	en_US
dc.title	Decolonising Archives: Indigenous Challenges to Record Keeping in ‘Reconciling’ Settler Colonial States	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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pubs.issue	91-92	en_US
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Abstract:

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Feminist and queer engagements with archives and archival theory have emphasised the affective dimensions of archival processes, particularly the meaning and place of archives when they concern marginalised people and intimate lives. In settler colonial contexts such as Australia and Canada, these ways of thinking about archives have been influential in responding to histories of removal, institutionalisation and abuse of Indigenous children. This article investigates the importance of feminist engagements with archives and historiography in ‘reconciling’ settler colonial states, with attention to sites of archival contention. Feminist modes of history that foreground affect in the formation of public culture need to take account of divergent views regarding the propriety of archival records in ‘reconciling’ settler colonial states. Indigenous peoples’ mistrust of state and institutional archives, demands for control of archives and legal actions for destruction of records, as well as establishment of autonomous archives, all contribute to the important and fraught process of decolonising settler colonial archives.

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