Community archives, community spaces: heritage, memory and identity

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres. It also explores new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particularly in relation to disciplines outside the archives. Over ten years have passed since the first volume of Community Archives, and inspired by continued research as well as by the formal recognition of community archives in the UK, the community archives movement has become an important area of research, recognition and appreciation by archivists, archival scholars and others worldwide. Increasingly the subject of papers and conferences, community archives are now seen as being in the vanguard of social concerns, markers of community-based activism, a participatory approach exemplifying the on-going evolution of 'professional' archival (and heritage) practice and integral to the ability of people to articulate and assert their identity. Community Archives, Community Spaces reflects the latest research and includes practical case studies on the challenges of building and sustaining community archives. This new book will appeal to practitioners, researchers, and academics in the archives and records community as well as to historians and other scholars concerned with community building and social issues.

Introduction / Jeannette A. Bastian and Andrew Flinn -- part 1. Analytical essays. Archival optimism, or, How to sustain a community archives / Rebecka Taves Sheffield ; Affective bonds : what community archives can teach mainstream / Michelle Caswell ; Community archives and the records continuum / Michael Piggott -- part 2. Case studies. Tuku mana taonga, tuka mana tangata : archiving for indigenous language and cultural revitalisation : cross-sectoral case studies from Aotearoa, New Zealand / Claire Hall and Honiana Love ; Self-documentation of Thai communities : reflective thoughts on the Western concept of community archives / Kanokporn Nasomtrug Simionica ; Popular music, community archives and public history online : cultural justice and the DIY approach to heritage / Paul Long, Sarah Baker, Zelmarie Cantillon, Jez Collins and Raphael Nowak ; Maison d'Haiti's collaborative archives project : archiving a community of records / Desiree Rochat, Kristen Young, Marjorie Villefranche and Aziz Choudry ; Indigenous archiving and wellbeing : surviving, thriving, reconciling / Joanne Evans, Shannon Faulkland, Kirsten Thorpe, Karen Adams, Lauren Booker and Narissa Timbery ; Community …