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Archiving from Below Discussion Series: Archival Inquiry Workshop
April 30 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
As part of a continuing “Archiving from Below” series, this session is to explore how concepts and practices associated with a method of militant research known as a “workers inquiry” might connect to and open up questions around our own archival contexts and labours.
The session will think through what “archival inquiry” might constitute, and how we might build on an approach of “co-research” that seeks to foreground and actively bring together both 1) a workers’ inquiry of the archives and often invisibilized archival labours (in and across different types of institutional and social movement contexts) and 2) a method of politicized archival research that takes a relational approach to the past and future, “co-research”-ing with social movement materials and histories and in relationship to ongoing or current political questions and concerns.
This session will take a more open and interactive format, providing time and space to brainstorm and work through ideas and issues together.
This session is especially geared towards archivists and researchers working within archives, but all are welcome!