COMMUNITY ARCHIVES
THE INTENSIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIONAL BELONGING BASED ON CULTURAL TERRITORIAL PRESENCE
Keywords:
community archives, aporetic perspective, territorial presence, cultural studies, Information ScienceAbstract
Community Archives have emerged as a suitable element for bringing archival services closer to social groups whose cultural identity suffers structural injustices, including their underrepresentation in institutional informational terms. Seeking to offer a conception of Community Archives that contemplates so-called representational belonging, which favors the protagonism of groups in relation to their archives, we articulated, in basic, qualitative, and exploratory reflections, notions from Archival Science/Information Science and Cultural Studies to outline a proposed conception. The proposal sought to combine knowledge and awareness of the social problems (aporias) of the groups that make up the Archive Community with the notion of cultural territorial presence, with its implications for identity and belonging, as a way to intensify representational belonging. Within this perspective, we linked methodological aspects to cultural territorial presence, with a specific focus on the potential of micro-histories and taking into account the concept of intersectionality. We consider that the proposal still requires applied research covering archival functions that rely on categorical and linguistic elements of representation, such as archival classification and description.