Purpose Archival research is a much under-rated and under-utilized method of research in
management studies. Yet multi-disciplinary undertakings being observed in recent times …

Over the last three or four decades in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, an enormous
variety of grassroots projects and initiatives have sprung up dedicated to recording and …

User perspective and user studies have received noticeably little practical attention in
archives and archival science. The purpose of this article is to address the issues of …

Individuals can increasingly collect data about their habits, routines, and environment using
ubiquitous technologies. Running specialized software, personal devices such as phones …

This article uses ethnographic research methods to explore the various forms of
engagement between mainstream publicly-funded archives in the UK and independent …

By cultivating archives through successive activations, people and communities define their
identities. In these activations, the meanings of archives are constructed and reconstructed …

This collection of essays breaks new ground in archival studies in the UK where
professional archival texts have traditionally concentrated on the how, not the why, of …

In this paper, based on conventional and digital ethnography, I first identify three dominant
research areas relating to the issues of destruction, use and abuse of archives and records …

The central roles of information, information professionals, cultural heritage institutions, and
information research in fostering and advancing social justice have begun to receive …

This paper discusses activist archives within the context of community archives and the
practices of archiving activism. Interference Archive (IA), a volunteer-run independent …