Travellers in archives, or the possibilities of a post-post-archival historiography
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Resumo: | For some time now, archives have been viewed as a conspiracy of state-power with which the historian must not collude. It is possible now to discern a slow process of recovery from this post- or anti-archival condition. As historians learn to operate with a more active conception of an archive, ‘the’ archive is revealed to be a rhetorical move rather than a place where documents are deposited, and ‘archives’ become the body of material we draw upon, or can plausibly draw upon, to answer our research questions. This essay offers a reading of two peculiar archives whose own histories need to be written into the historiography that draws upon them. Discernible in the move from a passive to a power-knowledge view of archives is the acknowledgement of the possibility that archives have an intellectual history. But you cannot control the meanings of the archives you create: your own emplotment is undermined by what you have invented as an archive, in your own ordering and of course in others’ reordering. The singular control over history and memory attributed to ‘the’ archive has never existed. We invent an archive every time we have a question to answer; and then someone reinvents the archive in the service of a new question. |
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Travellers in archives, or the possibilities of a post-post-archival historiographyViajantes em arquivos, ou as possibilidades de uma historiografia pós-pós-arquivísticaarquivohistoriografia pós-arquivisticapós-colonialarchivepost-archival historiographypos-colonialFor some time now, archives have been viewed as a conspiracy of state-power with which the historian must not collude. It is possible now to discern a slow process of recovery from this post- or anti-archival condition. As historians learn to operate with a more active conception of an archive, ‘the’ archive is revealed to be a rhetorical move rather than a place where documents are deposited, and ‘archives’ become the body of material we draw upon, or can plausibly draw upon, to answer our research questions. This essay offers a reading of two peculiar archives whose own histories need to be written into the historiography that draws upon them. Discernible in the move from a passive to a power-knowledge view of archives is the acknowledgement of the possibility that archives have an intellectual history. But you cannot control the meanings of the archives you create: your own emplotment is undermined by what you have invented as an archive, in your own ordering and of course in others’ reordering. The singular control over history and memory attributed to ‘the’ archive has never existed. We invent an archive every time we have a question to answer; and then someone reinvents the archive in the service of a new question.De há algum tempo para cá, os arquivos têm sido vistos como conspirações do poder estatal com as quais o historiador não deve pactuar. É agora possível discernir um lento processo de recuperação desta condição pós- ou anti-colonial. À medida que os historiadores aprendem a operar com uma concepção mais activa de arquivo, ‘o’ arquivo revela-se enquanto movimento retórico mais do que um lugar onde documentos são depositados., e ‘arquivos’ tornam-se no corpo de material onde vamos buscar, ou onde podemos plausivelmente ir buscar, respostas para as perguntas da nossa pesquisa. Este texto oferece uma leitura de dois arquivos peculiares cujas histórias precisam de ser inscritas na historiografia que deles bebe. Discernível no movimento de uma perspectiva passiva do arquivo para outra centrada em poder-conhecimento é o reconhecimento de que também os arquivos possuem uma história intelectual. No entanto, não se pode controlar os significados dos arquivos que criamos: os nossos próprios enredos são enfraquecidos por aquilo que inventamos enquanto arquivo, no nosso ordenamento e, claro, no re-ordenamento de outros. O controlo singular sobre a história e sobre a memória atribuido a ’o’ arquivo nunca existiu. Nós inventamos um arquivo a cada vez que temos uma pergunta a que responder; e, nesse momento, outra pessoa re-inventa o arquivo ao serviço de uma nova questão.Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa2021-01-27info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2016.n3.23045https://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2016.n3.23045Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past; No. 3 (2016); 11-27Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past; N.º 3 (2016); 11-272183-590Xreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/23045https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/23045/17109Copyright (c) 2021 Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Pastinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessZachariah, Benjamin2023-04-15T05:23:56Zoai:ojs.revistas.rcaap.pt:article/23045Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:49:22.517820Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Travellers in archives, or the possibilities of a post-post-archival historiography Viajantes em arquivos, ou as possibilidades de uma historiografia pós-pós-arquivística |
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Travellers in archives, or the possibilities of a post-post-archival historiography |
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Travellers in archives, or the possibilities of a post-post-archival historiography Zachariah, Benjamin arquivo historiografia pós-arquivistica pós-colonial archive post-archival historiography pos-colonial |
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Travellers in archives, or the possibilities of a post-post-archival historiography |
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Zachariah, Benjamin |
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For some time now, archives have been viewed as a conspiracy of state-power with which the historian must not collude. It is possible now to discern a slow process of recovery from this post- or anti-archival condition. As historians learn to operate with a more active conception of an archive, ‘the’ archive is revealed to be a rhetorical move rather than a place where documents are deposited, and ‘archives’ become the body of material we draw upon, or can plausibly draw upon, to answer our research questions. This essay offers a reading of two peculiar archives whose own histories need to be written into the historiography that draws upon them. Discernible in the move from a passive to a power-knowledge view of archives is the acknowledgement of the possibility that archives have an intellectual history. But you cannot control the meanings of the archives you create: your own emplotment is undermined by what you have invented as an archive, in your own ordering and of course in others’ reordering. The singular control over history and memory attributed to ‘the’ archive has never existed. We invent an archive every time we have a question to answer; and then someone reinvents the archive in the service of a new question. |
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