Community archives and identities: documenting and sustaining community heritage

社区档案和身份：记录和维护社区遗产

• 批准号: AH/E00881X/1
• 负责人: Andrew Flinn
• 金额: $ 21.16万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE00881X%2F1
• 关键词: Community; archives; identities; documenting; sustaining

This project will investigate the importance of community archives, and in particular the role of these archives in the production of community identity via academic and popular public histories, exhibitions and other interactions. Although many of these initiatives have a relatively long history, the importance of these collections has only recently been widely recognised amongst cultural policy and professional organisations. However these collections provide many challenges to traditional professional practices (the scope of archival collections, the relationship with non-traditional user communities and issues of ownership / custodianship).Increasingly the interactions of many communities, including transnational ones, are located in the virtual environment, so this project will also investigate community creation and use of virtual social and cultural spaces for the storage of and access to archive materials and examine the implications for traditional archival custodial approaches to preservation and access. In UK terms, although there have been a number of innovative collaborations between community groups and professionals, this remains a significantly under-researched area with little evidence or theory to underpin and identify good practice. The uniqueness of this proposal lies both in its subject matter but also in its collaboration between academics in archives and records management, digital humanities, and cultural heritage along with professional archivists and the creators, users and custodians of community archives. Community and community identity do not have fixed definitions but are fluid, dynamic concepts that are constantly in the process of being produced and transformed, capable of broad understanding. Whilst acknowledging this diversity this project will concentrate on in depth studies of four community archives and initiatives defined mainly, but not exclusively, by ethnicity and faith. Although these archives will differ in terms of size, length of time in existence, resources, physical or virtual location and community represented, there will also be points of commonality which will allow for the identification of some more general points, and to set the study in wider context. The choice of research methods, in-depth case studies backed up by a significant number of wide-ranging interviews, means that those most closely involved in community archives will help to mould the research framework that this project will develop and work to. Among the questions that this project will seek to answer are:How community archives contribute to the process of identity production among diasporic communities in Britain and what contribution might they make in terms of building a more cohesive multicultural society?How does the preservation and long-term accessibility of diasporic community archives contribute to academic research and understanding of those communities and wider society? What is the relationship between physical and virtual community archives and how do these different sites affect the ways in which identities are produced?How can archivists support the development and sustainability of community archives and what do community initiatives contribute to professional understandings and practice?The outcome will be a better understanding of the role of community archive initiatives in resisting misrepresentation and marginalisation, a clearer understanding of the relationship between formal archive professionals and the custodians of community archives and suggestions regarding best practice models for identifying and ensuring the long-term sustainability of significant community archives, both physical and virtual. Such findings will interest cultural policy makers, historians and cultural heritage academics interested in community history and identity, archivists and other cultural heritage professionals, and the creators, users and custodians of community archives.

该项目将调查社区档案的重要性，特别是这些档案在通过学术和流行的公共历史，展览和其他互动产生社区身份的作用。虽然这些举措中有许多都有着相对较长的历史，但这些藏品的重要性直到最近才得到文化政策和专业组织的广泛认可。然而，这些收藏品对传统的专业做法提出了许多挑战（档案收藏的范围、与非传统用户群体的关系以及所有权/保管问题）许多群体，包括跨国群体的互动越来越多地位于虚拟环境中，因此，本项目还将调查社区创造和使用虚拟社会和文化空间来存储和访问档案材料，并研究对传统文化的影响。档案保管办法的保存和访问。就英国而言，尽管社区团体和专业人士之间进行了一些创新合作，但这仍然是一个研究严重不足的领域，几乎没有证据或理论来支持和确定良好做法。该提案的独特之处在于它的主题，也在于它与档案和记录管理，数字人文和文化遗产学者沿着专业档案工作者和社区档案的创建者，用户和保管人之间的合作。社区和社区身份没有固定的定义，而是不断产生和转变的流动和动态概念，能够得到广泛的理解。在承认这种多样性的同时，该项目将集中于深入研究主要但不完全由种族和信仰界定的四个社区档案和倡议。虽然这些档案在规模、存在时间长短、资源、实际或虚拟地点以及所代表的社区方面各不相同，但也会有一些共同点，这将有助于确定一些更一般的要点，并将研究置于更广泛的背景下。研究方法的选择，深入的案例研究，由大量的广泛的采访支持，意味着那些最密切参与社区档案将有助于塑造研究框架，这个项目将开发和工作。该项目将寻求回答的问题包括：社区档案如何有助于英国散居社区的身份生产过程，以及它们在建立一个更具凝聚力的多元文化社会方面可能做出什么贡献？散居社区档案的保存和长期可访问性如何有助于学术研究和对这些社区和更广泛社会的了解？物理和虚拟社区档案之间的关系是什么？这些不同的网站如何影响身份的产生？档案工作者如何支持社区档案的发展和可持续性，社区倡议对专业理解和实践有何贡献？其结果将是更好地了解社区档案举措在抵制歪曲和边缘化方面的作用，更清楚地了解正式档案专业人员与社区档案保管人之间的关系，并就确定和确保长期可持续性的最佳实践模式提出建议。这些调查结果将引起文化政策制定者、对社区历史和特性感兴趣的历史学家和文化遗产学者、档案管理员和其他文化遗产专业人员以及社区档案的创建者、使用者和保管者的兴趣。

项目成果

'Migrations, disputed heritages and multicultured identities: archives in post-colonial societies'

“移民、有争议的遗产和多元文化身份：后殖民社会的档案”

• 期刊: Archives and Manuscripts
• 影响因子: 0.3
• 作者: Andrew Flinn (Author)

Archives and their communities: serving the people

档案馆及其社区：为人民服务

• DOI: 10.3828/comma.2008.1.23
• 发表时间: 2008
• 期刊: Comma
• 作者: Flinn A

Encyclopedia of Archival Science

档案学百科全书

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Flinn A

The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping

档案和记录保存的未来

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Flinn, A

Memory, Narrative and Histories: Critical Debates, New Trajectories. Working Papers on Memory, Narrative and Histories, no. 1

记忆、叙事和历史：批判性辩论、新轨迹。

• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Flinn A