Archives and Emotions : International Dialogues Across Past, Present, and Future / edited by Ilaria Scaglia and Valeria Vanesio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scaglia, Ilaria, editor.

Vanesio, Valeria, editor.

Series:

History of Emotions.

History of Emotions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Archives and Emotions argues, at its most fundamental level, that emotions matter and have always mattered to both the people whose histories are documented by archives and to those working with the documents these contain. This is the first study to put archivists and historians-scholars and practitioners from different settings, geographical provenance, and stages of career-in conversation with one another to examine the interplay of a broad range of emotions and archives, traditional and digital, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries across national and disciplinary borders. Drawing on methodologies from the history of emotions and critical archival studies, this book provides an original analysis of two interconnected themes through a selected number of case studies: the emotional dynamics affecting the construction and management of archives; and the emotions and their effects on the people engaging with them, such as archivists, researchers, and a broad range of communities. Its main message is that critically investigating the history and mechanics of emotions-including their suppression and exclusion-also being conscious of their effects on people and societies is essential to understanding how archives came to hold deep civic and ethical implications for both present and future. This study thus establishes a solid base for future scholarship and interdisciplinary collaborations and challenges academic and non-academic readers to think, work, and train new generations differently, fully aware that past and present choices have-and might again-hurt, inspire, empower, or silence.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Table

Preface

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Note on Text/Translation

1 Introduction: Why Archives and Emotions?

2 Across National and International: Exchanges on Archives and Emotions at the League of Nations and Beyond

Part 1 Emotions and the Shaping of the Archives

3 True Crime in the Archives: The Eighteenth-Century Old Bailey and the Emotions of Sensationalism* (Anna Pravdica

4 Moral Exculpation along the Archival Grain: Self-censoring, War Trauma, and the Reporting of German Soldiers' Suicides, 1914

5 "The last letter I ever received": Managing Epistles and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Family Archives (Imogen Peck)

6 The Emotions of Expertise: Whiteness and Dismissal in the US Archaeological Archive of 1960s Peru* (Rachel Sarah

7 A Conscious Ripping: Emotions in the Construction and Destruction of Anna Banti's Archive (Annantonia Martorano)

8 Looking for an Objective Emotionality: The "Rationalized Archives" of an Italian Twentieth-Century Artist (Lorenzo Serg

Part 2 Emotions, Archives, and Their People

9 Archivists and Emotional Labor: Preserving Personas and Personal Identities in Archives (Kristen J. Nyitray and Dana

10 Memory Keepers Unveiled: The Emotional Styles behind the Archives (Tijana Rupcic)

11 Unveiling the Untold Story: Emotions in National Archives (Charles J. Farrugia)

12 Bearing Witness to the Historical Record: A Psychosocial/Psychodynamic Method for Working with Archival Materials (Iqbal

13 Real and Imagined Archives: The Emotional Impact of Zimbabwe's Displaced Rhodesian Army Archives (Forget Chaterera-Zamb

14 Future Perfect? Affect-Aware, History-Informed, Future-Oriented Archive-Making (Anne J. Gilliland)

Afterword

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350421912

135042191X

9781350415195

1350415197

9781350415201

1350415200

OCLC:

1465273120