Workshop // 5B
The ethics of archival engagement: building new frameworks and practices
Nifty Fox Live Scribe// Session 5B //
The ethics of archival engagement: building new frameworks and practices
This workshop will challenge participants to consider the ethical dimensions of archival engagement at both an individual and collective level. Drawing on scholarship from Critical Archive Studies and the facilitator's own experience of archival research and restoration in Uganda, we will identify and examine some of the key ethical issues that arise when doing archival research on histories of crime and penality in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
More broadly, this workshop will also encourage participants to consider and engage with larger ethical questions about archival access, "ownership," and repatriation. Together, participants will work on building new frameworks for ethical archival engagement that challenge colonial knowledge production and power structures.
About the Convenor
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo and is affiliated with the Balsille School of International Affairs. Her research critically analyzes the global history of prisons and detention camps, connecting these histories to current discussions about and movements for decolonization and prison abolition. Her book, Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda, is forthcoming with Ohio University Press.