Touches across time: queer as provenance

Carolyn Dinshaw describes her queer historical practice as being about looking for “an affective connection, for community, for even a touch across time” (1999, p 21). Queer engagements with records—these touches across time—are not easily or adequately accounted for in current conceptualisations of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archival science Jg. 24; H. 4; S. 637 - 656
1. Verfasser: Freeman, Elliot
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2024
Springer Nature B.V
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Access
Anthropology
Archives & records
Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
Cultural and Media Studies
Cultural Heritage
Historical perspectives
Information Storage and Retrieval
LGBTQ culture
Library Science
Literature
Original Paper
Provenance
Records management
Sexuality
Visibility
Continuum
Access
Provenance
Description
Pluralisation
Queer archives
ISSN:1389-0166, 1573-7500, 1573-7519
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Zusammenfassung:Carolyn Dinshaw describes her queer historical practice as being about looking for “an affective connection, for community, for even a touch across time” (1999, p 21). Queer engagements with records—these touches across time—are not easily or adequately accounted for in current conceptualisations of provenance. The dissonance between how we currently understand record co-creation, and the historical perspectives and recordkeeping needs of queer users, substantially and negatively impacts the visibility and accessibility of queer histories in institutional archival settings. In this paper, I articulate the proposed concept of queer as provenance. I argue that we must extend our current conceptualisation of multiple provenance beyond mere co-creatorship. With a focus on queer records and record users, I argue that we must expand our understanding to encapsulate not only the relationship between record, creator, and subject, but also the relationship between record, creator, subject, and user. Through a continuum lens, I consider how queer/ing engagements and interactions with, and responses to, queer records could and should inform our descriptive practices, and explore the potential of considering queer users as co-creators within such a dynamic. I conclude by articulating queer as provenance and consider its potential as a foundation on which transformative, reparative, and liberatory archival practices might be built.
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ISSN:1389-0166
1573-7500
1573-7519
DOI:10.1007/s10502-024-09452-y