The Remaking of Archival Values

Hoyle's book explores the challenges of embedding new values in archives, comparing theory and practice in the UK and the Anglophone world. It demonstrates how persistent discursive structures about archives have manifested from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and how conceptions of archival value arise, are expressed, and become authorised in practice at international, national, and local levels. The book asks if and how dominant epistemologies of the archive can be dismantled amidst systems of power that resist change.

Format: Hardback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 07 October 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Hoyle examines the challenges faced by scholars, institutions, organizations, and practitioners in embedding new values using critical discourse analysis and comparing theory and practice from the UK and the Anglophone world. She demonstrates how persistent underlying discursive structures about archives have manifested from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Qualitative and participatory research in the UK shows how conceptions of archival value arise, are expressed, and become authorized in practice at international, national, and local levels. Considering what might be learned from similar debates in public history and cultural heritage studies, the book asks if and how dominant epistemologies of the archive can be dismantled amidst systems of power that resist change.

The Remaking of Archival Values is relevant to researchers and students in the field of archival and information studies, as well as practitioners who work with archives around the world. It will also speak to the interests of those working in the fields of cultural heritage, archaeology, museum studies, public history, and gender and race studies.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367478674