eprintid: 10200942
rev_number: 7
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datestamp: 2024-12-03 10:03:50
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
sword_depositor: 699
creators_name: Sexton, Anna
title: Introducing the legacies and trajectories of trauma to the archival field
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: F15
keywords: Trauma,
Trauma-informed,
Archives,
Records,
Affect
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: Trauma as a concept, a signifier and a frame has become increasingly visible in archival theory and praxis in recent years. A shift that is perhaps unsurprising given that society at large appears to have embraced trauma as a major interpretative category for our age. The recent spotlight on trauma can also be linked to accompanying movements in our discourse as we have begun to unpack and theorise the affective dimensions of records work and have moved towards more person-centred approaches. While the recent introduction of trauma-informed approaches to our field is a welcome development in many ways, this article seeks to critically engage with the Western concept of trauma to expose its intellectual lineages and the social and moral economies that have shaped its emergence in different spheres; and highlight how archival studies discourse on trauma is shaped in relation to different branches of Western trauma discourse. This article argues that as archivists and records workers adopt the language of trauma from adjacent arenas as an explanatory and transformative frame, it is vital that we do so in possession of an understanding of trauma’s conceptual legacies and in conversation with broader affective, liberatory and reparative framings. The article is written in the spirit of becoming truly ‘trauma-informed’.
date: 2025-03
date_type: published
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10502-024-09471-9
full_text_type: other
language: eng
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2339797
doi: 10.1007/s10502-024-09471-9
lyricists_name: Sexton, Anna
lyricists_id: AGREE69
actors_name: Sexton, Anna
actors_id: AGREE69
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: restricted
publication: Archival Science
volume: 25
number: 1
article_number: 3
issn: 1389-0166
citation:        Sexton, Anna;      (2025)    Introducing the legacies and trajectories of trauma to the archival field.                   Archival Science , 25  (1)    , Article 3.  10.1007/s10502-024-09471-9 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-024-09471-9>.      
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200942/1/ARCS-D-24-00036_R3.pdf