Queer lives in archives: Intelligibility and forms of memory. Watts, G. disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, 2018. Publisher: University of Kentucky Libraries
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Abstract: Exploring queer archives through a variety of texts and case studies, this paper seeks to understand three primary themes: the departure of traditional archival theory in queer archives, the absence of records and what they might mean for queer history, and a conception of queer time and space contributed to by archival records. Together, these suggest a specific form of intelligibility and memory available to people identifying as queer through the existence of these communal archives, one which reaffirms a history that some were determined to bury and which challenges and expands typical understandings of activism in the archival profession. Finally, this paper seeks to understand how these departures result in a particular political power available to queer archives. Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author(s) and the publication source are credited.
@article{watts_queer_2018,
	title = {Queer lives in archives: {Intelligibility} and forms of memory},
	volume = {27},
	shorttitle = {Queer lives in archives},
	url = {https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol27/iss1/18/},
	doi = {10.13023/DISCLOSURE.27.15},
	abstract = {Abstract: 
Exploring queer archives through a variety of texts and case studies, this paper seeks to understand three primary themes: the departure of traditional archival theory in queer archives, the absence of records and what they might mean for queer history, and a conception of queer time and space contributed to by archival records. Together, these suggest a specific form of intelligibility and memory available to people identifying as queer through the existence of these communal archives, one which reaffirms a history that some were determined to bury and which challenges and expands typical understandings of activism in the archival profession. Finally, this paper seeks to understand how these departures result in a particular political power available to queer archives. 
Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author(s) and the publication source are credited.},
	number = {Article 18},
	urldate = {2020-08-28},
	journal = {disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory},
	author = {Watts, Gina},
	year = {2018},
	note = {Publisher: University of Kentucky Libraries},
	keywords = {Read},
}

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