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List of contents
Foreword by Jeannette Bastian; Legerdemain by Kayo Chingonyi; Introduction by James Lowry; Part I: Places and Sovereignties -- 1. ‘Joint Heritage’: Provincializing an Archival Ideal; 2. ‘Provenance in Place’: Crafting the Vienna Convention for Global Decolonization and Archival Repatriation; 3. Re-placing Evidence: Locating archival displacement in the US Federal Acknowledgement Process; 4. Ngaadzoke Please: A Dare/Inkundla for the Rhodesian Army Records; Part II: Borders and Diasporas – 5. Below the Nation State: Power Asymmetry and Jurisdictional Boundaries around the Archives of the Madeira Archipelago; 6. Records in Motion: The New York Times and the ‘ISIS Files’; 7. Archival Entanglements: Colonial Rule and Records in Namibia; 8. Diasporic, Displaced, Alienated or Shared: Caribbean Literary Archives; Part III: Towards Home – 9. Displaced, Un-placed and Re-placed: Armenian Archives in the US; 10. Claims for Colonial Objects and Claims for Colonial Archives: Can the Two Meet?; 11. The Repatriation of Surinamese archives from the Netherlands: (a) The Dutch Perspective, (b) The Surinamese Perspective; 12. Value Displaced, Value Re/Claimed: Musings on Reparations.
About the author
James Lowry is Associate Professor in Information Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is an Honorary Research Fellow and former co-director of the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies, where he taught following a ten-year career in archives and records management. James is editor of the Routledge Studies in Archives book series.
Summary
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.
