“It’s Not the Materials Themselves, It’s the Attitude of the Donors”

The Role of Community Accountability in the Sustainability of Queer Archives

  • Travis L. Wagner
  • Allan A. Martell
  • Shannon M. Oltmann

Résumé

Cet article rapporte les résultats d’entrevues semi-structurées avec

25 archivistes et conservateurs.trices qui travaillent avec des collections reliées

aux communautés LGBTQIA+ et du matériel sur l’épidémie de VIH/SIDA. Plus

précisément, il rapporte comment ces professionnel.le.s définissent et s’engagent

dans des pratiques éthiques, des obligations basées sur l’accès et des relations

communautaires, en créant et en prenant soin de leurs archives. Cet article se

concentre sur la façon dont les participant.e.s, incluant des professionnel.le.s

provenant de diverses communautés et centres d’archives de diverses tailles et

portées à travers les États-Unis, comprennent les responsabilités communautaires de leur travail. Cet accent sur la responsabilité communautaire nécessite

que les professionnel.le.s recadrent l’éthique archivistique, reconsidèrent la

subjectivité du travail de conservation et de formation des collections, et priorisent le bien-être communautaire plutôt que la quantité associée au développement de collection. En réponse à ces résultats, cet article identifie des implications théoriques et pratiques pour les archives queers, principalement reliées

aux méthodes de production archivistique, aux approches communautaires qui

stimulent la mobilisation et l’engagement avec les archives, et l’impact transversal de ces implications et des ces approches sur des questions de durabilité

des récits queers et provenant de communautés historiquement marginalisées.

Bibliographies de l'auteur-e

Travis L. Wagner

Travis L. Wagner is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Wagner’s research interests include critical information studies, queer archives, and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in sociotechnical systems. Their work investigates how LGBTQIA+ communities create identity in opposition to sociotechnical systems that characterize and limit those identities. Additionally, Wagner studies the unique relationships between obsolete archival mediums and queer counter-historical work across archival contexts. Wagner earned their PhD in information science from the University of South Carolina (USC) and served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Archival Futures (CAFe) and the Recovering and Reusing Archival Data (RRAD) lab within the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. They are the co-creator of the Queer Cola Oral History and Digital Archive.

Allan A. Martell

Allan A. Martell is an assistant professor in the Department of Information and Library Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Martell explores the ways societies negotiate social memories of violence; the role of information curation in shaping such memories; and possible frameworks to promote more critical, nuanced memories. Martell received his PhD in information from the School of Information at the University of Michigan, an MS in digital media from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BA in social communications from the Central American University (El Salvador). Before joining the faculty at Indiana University, Martell was a postdoctoral researcher at Louisiana State University.

Shannon M. Oltmann

Shannon M. Oltmann is an associate professor in the School of Information Science, College of Communication and Information, at the University of Kentucky. Oltmann’s research focuses on issues of intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, and information ethics. Her work is mostly qualitative, examining how and why civil liberties such as freedom of speech become curtailed or enhanced. Much of her work has centred on public libraries, but Oltmann has also studied government agencies, art galleries, social media platforms, public court records, and other types of libraries.

The Holocaust through the VHEC Collection, exhibition room view, 2023.
Publié-e
2024-11-01
Comment citer
Wagner, Travis L., Allan A. Martell, et Shannon M. Oltmann. 2024. « “It’s Not the Materials Themselves, It’s the Attitude of the Donors”: The Role of Community Accountability in the Sustainability of Queer Archives ». Archivaria 98 (novembre), 136-63. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13995.
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Archivaria 98 (Fall 2024)
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Articles

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