Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Documentary film by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. Documentary film, directed by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee. Banger Films and the National Film Board of Canada, 2024. 99 minutes. South by Southwest Film & TV Festival, Austin, Texas, March 8–16, 2024; Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, Ontario, April 25 – May 4, 2024

Greg Bak and Marianne Rostgaard, eds., The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving. Greg Bak and Marianne Rostgaard, eds. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2024. 312 pp. 978-1-032-35122-

In Search of a Liberatory Appraisal for Palestinian Archives

In November 2023, the Central Archives of Gaza was bombed during Israel’s ongoing incursion in the strip, reducing 150 years of the cultural record to ash. This attack is but one moment in the long history of archival theft and destruction in Palestine, the culmination of a sphere of colonial epistemicide. Palestinian ways of knowing face a constant threat of annihilation, and Palestinian archives are built under the looming peril of physical destruction. Palestinian archives struggle to appraise for the future and engage instead in massified forms of appraisal and digitization in efforts to preserve everything they can in the face of these threats. Taking stock of some current prominent instances of archival projects in Palestine, this article thinks through some current approaches to appraisal, wondering if they apply here and whether they can be expanded to account for the particularities of this environment. It then attempts to reimagine what a liberatory appraisal might look like, thinking about the Palestinian archive as a counter to epistemic violence and exploring the processes through which appraisal methods and categories might be gleaned by anticipating liberated futures

Sue Breakell and Wendy Russell, eds., The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context

The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context. Sue Breakell and Wendy Russell, eds. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2024. xii, 282 pp. 978036720601

Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History. Laura E. Helton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 305 pp. 978-0-2312-1274-

Liberation on the Dance Floor: Reflective Nostalgia, The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives, Toronto, ON

Liberation on the Dance Floor: Reflective Nostalgia. The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives, Toronto, Ontario. November 7 – December 15, 2024. Curated by Craig Jennex

The Algonquin Provincial Park Oral History Transcription Pilot Project

This communication details an emerging partnership between the collections coordinator of the Algonquin Provincial Park Archives and Collections (APPAC), and anthropologists at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. This partnership offers students at Queen’s practical experience in working with oral histories, including transcription and basic discourse analysis, by engaging directly with recordings accessioned at the APPAC. In this article, we reflect on the collaborative process that gave rise to this project, outline what worked well, suggest ways to improve upon our pilot efforts, and provide a working model for other interdisciplinary partnerships focused on archival collections. We also suggest ways that archival collections can be used in interdisciplinary pedagogy and reflect on how these kinds of collaborations can be fruitful for academic researchers, archival users, students, and museum visitors