Archival Evidence Usage
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Archival Evidence Usage
Archival Evidence Usage explores the critical role of primary sources like manuscripts and records in understanding and validating historical events. It emphasizes how these archival materials are the foundation for interpreting the past, offering insights into the creation, preservation, and interpretation of historical documents. One intriguing aspect is the book's exploration of how social, political, and technological factors influenced the creation of these records across different cultures and time periods. The book also highlights techniques for source criticism, which are vital for discerning authenticity and bias. The book uniquely empowers readers to engage with primary sources directly, fostering critical thinking and problem-solving skills, rather than simply presenting historical facts. It is structured in three parts, beginning with an introduction to archival evidence and its various forms. The second section focuses on evaluating archival materials, while the final section applies archival evidence to historical research, offering strategies for constructing arguments. This approach equips historians, researchers, and anyone interested in historical research with the tools to interpret historical evidence effectively.
Beyond Evidence
Drawing on conceptual debates in transitional justice and critical archival studies, as well as empirical cases from various countries around the world, the contributions in this book critically examine how archives are produced by and used in transitional justice processes such as tribunals, truth commissions and remembrance processes. This edited volume provides conceptual critiques of the transitional justice paradigm and innovations in providing a new lens on archival practices in transitional justice. In doing so it offers in-depth analyses of the relationship between archives and transitional justice in France, Colombia, Rwanda, South Africa and Northern-Ireland; it highlights truth commission and (international) court archives as much as personal collections and oral histories. The authors bring critical archival studies into dialogue with transitional justice discourses to highlight the activism and emancipatory potential but also the possibilities of injustices inherent in archives and archival practice. Crucially, the book goes beyond merely highlighting the evidentiary value of archives by linking them to a multitude of transitional justice processes, goals and ideals, including remembrance processes, witnessing, reconciliation, non-recurrence, and various struggles against injustices and prevalent violence. This collection contributes to and expands our understanding of archives in transitional justice and critically questions core assumptions being made about the inherently positive contributions archives and records make to dealing with a violent past. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.
Archival Futures
Firmly rooted in current professional debate and scholarship, Archival Futures offers thought provoking and accessible chapters that aim to challenge and inspire archivists globally and to encourage debate about their futures.