Police/Archives
Abstract
The author develops the notion of “police/archives” based on his experience of trying to conduct research at the Toronto Police Museum. Drawing on Foucault, the author explores the reciprocal relationship between the police as archives and, especially, the archives as police. Another goal is to disentangle Foucault from discussions of “the Archive” as metaphor in both the archival literature and in queer theory. The author makes the case for a less metaphorical, more historicalmaterialist understanding of Foucault in and on archives.
RÉSUMÉ
L’auteur développe la notion de « police/archives » à partir de ses tentatives de recherche au Toronto Police Museum. S’inspirant de Foucault, il explore la relation réciproque entre la police comme archives et surtout les archives comme police. Un autre de ses buts est de sortir Foucault des discussions portant sur « les Archives » comme métaphore, tant dans la littérature archivistique que dans la théorie queer. L’auteur explique le besoin d’une approche moins métaphorique et plus historicomatérialiste par rapport à notre entendement de Foucault, tant dans les archives qu’au sujet d’elles.
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