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Defining human rights archives: introduction to the special double issue on archives and human rights

Defining human rights archives: introduction to the special double issue on archives and human... Arch Sci (2014) 14:207–213 DOI 10.1007/s10502-014-9226-0 EDITORIAL Defining human rights archives: introduction to the special double issue on archives and human rights Michelle Caswell Published online: 3 September 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Is it possible the antonym of forgetting is not remembering but justice? Yosef Yerushalmi (2005, p. 117) The majority of the papers in this special double issue on archives and human rights were originally presented at the symposium ‘‘The Antonym of Forgetting: Global Perspectives on Human Rights Archives,’’ which was held October 18 and 19, 2013, at the University of California, Los Angeles. The symposium explored the complex political, ethical, legal, and cultural challenges faced in the creation, preservation, and use of records documenting human rights crises. In bringing together an international group of archivists and scholars whose work addresses archival issues in a broad range of countries—South Africa, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda, and the United States—the symposium provided an opportunity to develop interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of archival theory and practice, human rights, history, anthropology, and law. Interest in human rights within archival studies has exploded over the past decade. This burgeoning subfield has exposed the role of records, record http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archival Science Springer Journals

Defining human rights archives: introduction to the special double issue on archives and human rights

Caswell, Michelle
Archival Science , Volume 14 (4) – Sep 3, 2014
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2014 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
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Humanities / Arts; Library Science; Organization/Planning; Information Storage and Retrieval; Anthropology; Cultural Heritage; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
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1573-7519
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10.1007/s10502-014-9226-0
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Arch Sci (2014) 14:207–213 DOI 10.1007/s10502-014-9226-0 EDITORIAL Defining human rights archives: introduction to the special double issue on archives and human rights Michelle Caswell Published online: 3 September 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Is it possible the antonym of forgetting is not remembering but justice? Yosef Yerushalmi (2005, p. 117) The majority of the papers in this special double issue on archives and human rights were originally presented at the symposium ‘‘The Antonym of Forgetting: Global Perspectives on Human Rights Archives,’’ which was held October 18 and 19, 2013, at the University of California, Los Angeles. The symposium explored the complex political, ethical, legal, and cultural challenges faced in the creation, preservation, and use of records documenting human rights crises. In bringing together an international group of archivists and scholars whose work addresses archival issues in a broad range of countries—South Africa, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda, and the United States—the symposium provided an opportunity to develop interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of archival theory and practice, human rights, history, anthropology, and law. Interest in human rights within archival studies has exploded over the past decade. This burgeoning subfield has exposed the role of records, record

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