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DESCRIPTION:At its most basic\, caring for archives is about ensuring they are safe\, shielded from intense light\, protected from humidity\, and cataloged for easy access. It relates to the routine tasks of restoration\, collating\, filing\, digitizing\, describing\, cataloging etc. that archivists perform. Yet\, recent calls for a feminist ethics of care in archival praxis remind us that care work is embroiled in questions of attentiveness and responsiveness (Agostinho “Archival Encounters: Rethinking Access and Care in Digital Archives”\, Archival Science 19 (2019): 141–165\; Schares “Witnessing the Archive: Stormé DeLarverie and Queer Performance Historicity”\, Text and Performance Quarterly 40.3 (2020):  250–267). It is concerned not only with the vulnerability of archives as material but also with the responsibility of the caregiver to witness the voices\, flesh\, and stories of the archived / as archives. Here caring is an embodied disposition\, purpose and praxis that encompasses and supersedes the daily undertakings of working in and with archives.    In dialogue with our speakers\, this session aims to unpick the multiple\, layered and sometimes contrary articulations of care. Centering a feminist approach to archives of / with care\, we engage with Athambile Masola\, Lecturer at the Historical Studies Department of the University of Cape Town\, and her work on Black women’s historiography and life writing. With reference to the work of Teresa Lanceta and Lester Brown\, we work through the deviations of care and its appropriation by capitalist and supremacist structures with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung\, Director of Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin\, thus exploring the layered and contrary notions that care work carries with regards to the colonial and its archives. And we explore how moving image restitution might be articulated through a framework of care with Nikolaus Perneczky\, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London\, thus probing t
SUMMARY:SESSION: Care
ORGANIZER:Inward Outward
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