Archival Entanglements (On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities) - Couverture souple

9780814259955: Archival Entanglements (On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities)

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ISBN 10 : 0814259952 ISBN 13 : 9780814259955

Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2026

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An impassioned and multidisciplinary argument for engaging with the archive as both vitally generative and ripe for critique and reimagination within the arts and humanities.

Archival Entanglements arrives in the wake of the archival turn in the arts and humanities. What humanists call “the archive” has been challenged, deconstructed, and reinvented, but, as editors Puja Batra-Wells and Harmony Bench show, the conversation about the archive is far from over. In this interdisciplinary collection, contributors from digital humanities, performance studies, labor studies, race and ethnic studies, and more come together to shed new light on how objects, knowledges, environments, bodily practices, and identities are entangled with the archive. Showcasing a range of approaches from traditional essays to artistic engagements, the works in this collection complicate questions of archival memory; raise issues of accessibility, erasure, latency, and surveillance; and ask if we should forge new spaces of remembrance that reach beyond the limits of the archive. Archival Entanglements posits the archive as both a generative site of knowledge production and a constricted force of consolidation around dominant narratives―essentially, as a complex web of theories and practices with which the arts and humanities are fundamentally entangled.

Contributors:
Anurima Banerji, Franco Barchiesi, Puja Batra-Wells, Harmony Bench, Johannah Bird, Leigh Bonds, I�aki Bonillas, Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Eric Gonzaba, Brian Harnetty, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Kelly Kivland, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Mariah E. Marsden, Mimi ?n??ha, Martin Joseph Ponce, Rebecca Schneider, Amy Shuman, Michelle Wibbelsman, Nicole Wood

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� propos de l'auteur

Puja Batra-Wells (Editor) Puja Batra-Wells is Associate Director of the Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange at The Ohio State University. She is a scholar of material cultures and folklore and coeditor (with Willow G. Mullins) of The Folklorist in the Marketplace.Harmony Bench (Editor) Harmony Bench is Associate Professor of Dance History and Theory at The Ohio State University and author of Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common. She also collaborates on award-winning digital humanities and data visualization projects in the performing arts.

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The archive is only one technology of memory, but it is the one around which the contributions in this volume are gathered as they consider multiple and entangled archives of objects, environments, land formations, bodily practices, and even genetic sequences. Archival Entanglements arrives in the wake of the archival turn across the arts and humanities to consider the archive anew. “Is it too bold to say that the time of the archive has passed?” Julietta Singh asks in her book No Archive Will Restore You. Indeed, perhaps the archive is over. Certainly, archival authority has been shaken as both scholars and political figures have chipped away at the monumentality of THE ARCHIVE to reveal the fragility of actual archives, and the care and labor required to sustain any site or practice of memory. But perhaps this is precisely why it is time now, again, to return to the archive―to activate its possibilities in alternate directions by beginning rather than ending with multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary entanglements.

To that end, this volume reaches across fields of study and methodological orientations within the humanities without reducing the unique perspectives of each modality in the process. Contributors come from performance, labor studies, digital humanities, area studies, history, literature, and visual arts, with perspectives on race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, trauma, de/colonization, and more. Some contributors are engaged with what feminist scholar Ann Cvetkovich calls “actually existing archives.” Others are engaged with the archive as a structure of power and as a concept that is itself laden with history, evidencing the ongoing influence of philosopher Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge, in which he conceptualizes the archive not as a repository of records but as the set of discourses that regulate what can be said and therefore what can be known. By now, the archive has been thoroughly challenged, deconstructed, multiplied, and reinvented, so with what new questions do scholars and artists return to the archive?

Reflecting the diversity of contributions, Archival Entanglements posits the archive as simultaneously a generative mode of inquiry, an invention, a form of memory-holding, and a site of knowledge production, even as it is also a conservative force of institutional consolidation around dominant narratives. We find that the connection between archives and official histories remains an important one, as demonstrated by the consequential tussles between the US National Archives and the White House regarding presidential records during Trump’s first administration, and disappearing federal data in his second. However, this volume focuses more on unofficial archives, incompleteness in the record, and archiving from the margins. With these emphases, Archival Entanglements is situated within a vibrant literature that addresses the limitations and harms of archival thought, as well as how bodily, nonmaterial, and digital practices of memory-keeping offer archival alternatives. In the remainder of this introduction, we focus on texts and approaches that have informed this specific collection, and then lay out central themes that guide the organization of this book. We conclude by framing our own stakes in these conversations as editors.

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