Community Archiving as imagining the world 'otherwise'? Spaces and practices of unofficial knowledge production in the UK

这项研究将考察社区档案在当代英国的社会文化作用。社区或其他非官方档案是存在于“官方”储存库之外的替代记录的重要来源。BAME、LGBTQ+和英国社会中其他代表性不足群体的成员尤其如此，但工人阶级历史和其他形式的知识也是如此。这些档案已经成为各种学术学科的研究对象--人们越来越认识到档案不是中立的空间，它们的主观和政治构成意味着社区档案往往被解读为一种激进的实践形式，或者是一种创造挑战既定规范的叛乱或修复历史的方式(Hall，2001，Flinn，2011，Prescod，2017)。然而，正如Caswell等人所说。(2017)辩称，虽然档案可能为被边缘化的群体提供‘想象不同的’空间，并反驳他们被歪曲或模糊的主流叙事，但这不是一个直截了当的过程。

This research will examine the socio-cultural role of community archives in the contemporary UK. Community or other non-official archives are important sources of alternative records that exist outside 'official' repositories. This is especially the case for members of BAME, LGBTQ+ and other under-represented groups in UK society, but is also true of working class histories and other forms of knowledge. These archives have become a subject of study for a variety of academic disciplines - it is increasingly recognised that archives are not neutral spaces, and their subjective and political constitution means that community archives in particular are often read as a form of activist praxis or as a way of creating insurgent or reparative histories which challenge established norms (Hall, 2001, Flinn, 2011, Prescod, 2017). However, as Caswell et al. (2017) argue whilst archives potentially provide spaces for marginalised groups to 'imagine otherwise' and counter mainstream narratives in which they are misrepresented or obscured, this is not a straightforward process.