What social groups and organizations are implicated in and possibly interested in the archive?

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June 5, 2022

I see this archive as potentially being of interest to a number of groups:

  • K-12 students in Santa Ana - I hope to involve students in the creation of the archive, pushing them to think of themselves as researchers and archivists. I also think the archive would be relevant to them as a way to think about what issues to prioritize in activism.
  • K-12 students elsewhere - the archive can serve as an example of what it looks like for K-12 students, university-associated researchers, and community members to digitize the collective history of a city/school district and hold officials accountable for remembering that history and addressing past and present discrimination/oppression/exclusion
  • For the same reasons as above, teachers in Santa Ana and elsewhere
  • UCI students - I think it's really important that university students understand the local context in which they go to school beyond the stereotypes of the area. A lot of my work at Penn focused on doing this kind of work with West Philadelphia and I would like to continue that here, framing this archive as a way for students--especially students who are doing research in Santa Ana--to learn about the city
  • School administrators and city council members - the archive could serve as a reminder that people are watching their actions and they must attend to the issues facing Santa Ana that are prioritized by the community
June 4, 2022

Energy service organizations in Philadelphia (such as Neighborhood Energy Centers, Energy Coordinating Agency, Community Legal Services); state and federal energy advocacy organizations (PULP, NEAUC, NARUC); energy transition and environmental justice orgs in Pennsylvania (Clean Air Council, Sierra Club, Green Building United); utility companies and the PA PUC

June 3, 2022
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This is an interesting question. I observed and worked with many different groups who have different stakes in Austin’s energy transition and don’t always see eye to eye (engineers, lawyers, ej activists, environmentalists, clean energy entrepreneurs, etc.). All of them are implicated, and many might have interest in participating in the archiving project, but (I am assuming) not all for the same reason. 

The archive could serve as something like a “boundary object’ for their collaboration (see Star’s work on the concept). It would be interesting to have participants with a diversity of expertise, politics, and ethics working in the same archive, but not exactly (or not necessarily) working together. Perhaps using PECE’s groups functions to organize different spaces for siloed work along with spaces for intersection. It would be fascinating to see if and how their artifacts and analytics traveled across these groups. 

Sunrise ATx and 350 Austin are two groups that I believe I could recruit fairly easily. They both have active campaigns that include some kind of research, and could benefit from a collaborative research infrastructure. Depending on their experience and the collections they manage to produce, I might be able to branch out from there.

Nadine Tanio's picture
June 2, 2022

Because this archive is centered around public schools any and all families of school-age children should be interested in the archive. Students wanting to learn more about the built environments they grew up in should also be interested. Anyone interested in governance in Azusa and neighboring localities should be interested. Finally, anyone interested in issues of justice, and they way that it is interwoven across environmental, social-economic, educational, etc, issues of justice.

The question of how to make this archive known and accessible to these multiple audiences, I think, will be an interative process of bringing in various stakeholders and keeping open a space of accessibility, while also creating sites of sophisticated analysis and interpretation.

Gina Hakim's picture
June 1, 2022

Community members in Urequio and Wilmington, CA; environmental justice activists or groups; researchers, activists or professionals working on questions of infrastructure