University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Antiviolence and marginalized communities: knowledge creation, community mobilization, and social justice through a participatory archiving approach

Allard, Danielle; Ferris, Shawna

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/89752

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Title
Antiviolence and marginalized communities: knowledge creation, community mobilization, and social justice through a participatory archiving approach
Author(s)
  • Allard, Danielle
  • Ferris, Shawna
Issue Date
2015
Keyword(s)
  • Social justice in LIS
  • Digital archives
  • Marginalized communities
Abstract
The Digital Archives and Marginalized Communities Project (DAMC), at the University of Manitoba, is an interdisciplinary collaboration to design and develop three separate but related digital archives using a participatory archiving approach with stakeholder community groups. Working titles for these collections are the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database (MMIWD), the Sex Work Database (SWD), and the Post-Apology Residential School Database (PARSD). This article discusses research and development from the project’s inception in 2012 through the end of 2014, reflecting on the practical and theoretical considerations that arise for researchers and practitioners in the information science professions as a result of engaging with anticolonial and antiviolence feminist methodologies. These methodological perspectives place the experiences and knowledge of Indigenous and sex worker communities at the center of decolonizing processes, foregrounding the need for archival processes that not only captures but also uses these knowledge(s) as the organizational scaffolding upon which to build socially just and representative archives for specific marginalized communities. Using examples drawn from all three archives, this article demonstrates how the goals, intentions, and knowledges of marginalized communities might be built into digital archives projects through a participatory archiving approach. This discussion is followed by an examination of how fostering and maintaining respectful relationships between all members involved with DAMC collaborations is fundamentally connected to both participatory archiving processes and broader social justice objectives.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89752
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2015.0043
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Copyright 2015 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 64 (2) Fall 2015: Social Justice in Library and Information Science and Services PRIMARY
Library Trends 64 (2) Fall 2015: Social Justice in Library and Information Science and Services. Edited by Bharat Mehra.