Archivaria 100: Special Issue – Legacies of Critical Theory in Archives

Archivaria (Fall/Winter 2025)
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From the Guest Editors

Editors’ Introduction
Mario H. Ramirez, Rebecka Taves Sheffield

Glancing Backwards

Derrida, the Scene of Archiving, and the Unhappy Consciousness
Brien Brothman

Michel and Mathurin
Finding Foucault in the Archives
Steven Maynard

Red Jenkinson
Tracing Indigenous Influences on Canadian Archival Theory
Raymond O. Frogner

Facing the Horizon

Fevered Inheritances
Ethics of Care and Donor Power in Starchives
Anastasia Armendariz, Kate Orazem

“Should We Just Burn It All Down?”
Slowness and Institutional Barriers to a Critical Future in Archives
Josh Wilson

Looking Within

The Archival Turn as Practice
Ann Cvetkovich

Love in the Archives
Towards a Theory and Praxis of Archival Care
Jennifer Douglas

Shifting Directions

Provenanced Aesthetics
The Beauty of Decay in Dawson City: Frozen Time
Patrick Keilty

“A Self You Have Not Yet Learned How to Love”
Building Asian/Queer//Queer/Asian Possibilities Through Archival Speculation
Yingying Han, Travis L. Wagner

Book Reviews

Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes, eds., Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives
Claire Malek

Tanya E. Clement, Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives
Heather Dean

Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang, eds., Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession
Elizabeth A. Pineo

Exhibition Reviews

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and Art Gallery of Ontario, Joyce Wieland: À cœur battant; Joyce Wieland: Heart On
Dylan Adamson

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Alanis Obomsawin: The Children Have to Hear Another Story
Kate Nugent

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