Archive Ethnography: Conceptualization

Who curates this archive, and who contributes?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 11:59am
What discursive, social and political economic formations is this archive situated within? What are the substantive logics of this archive – its purposes and contexts?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:00pm
What research questions should this archive address? What data can be drawn on to answer them?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:00pm
What social groups and organizations are implicated in and possibly interested in the archive?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:01pm
What is the archive designed to recollect?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:02pm
What is the archive designed to push against? Are there, for example, patterns of exclusion, inequality and injustice in your problem space that the archive could begin to reorder?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:02pm
What are the discursive risks of this archive?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:03pm
Does this archive aspire to create a public (following John Dewey’s arguments about the need to provoke publics into existence)? What are the intended and hoped for e|affects of this archive?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:03pm
How have the aims and audiences of this archive iterated over time?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:04pm
What collections will be in this archive?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:08pm
What are possible pathways through this archive, and how could they be narrated? In other words: what are ways this archive could be exhibited?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 12:09pm
What digital archives or exhibits (including digital humanities projects) have you found impressive, and why?

Submitted by Kim Fortun on May 23, 2022 - 11:58am

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