Archival Entanglements: On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities
Editat de Puja Batra-Wells, Harmony Benchen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2026
An impassioned and multidisciplinary argument for engaging with the archive as both vitally generative and ripe for critique and reimagination within the arts and humanities.
Archival Entanglements arrives in the wake of the archival turn in the arts and humanities. What humanists call “the archive” has been challenged, deconstructed, and reinvented, but, as editors Puja Batra-Wells and Harmony Bench show, the conversation about the archive is far from over. In this interdisciplinary collection, contributors from digital humanities, performance studies, labor studies, race and ethnic studies, and more come together to shed new light on how objects, knowledges, environments, bodily practices, and identities are entangled with the archive. Showcasing a range of approaches from traditional essays to artistic engagements, the works in this collection complicate questions of archival memory; raise issues of accessibility, erasure, latency, and surveillance; and ask if we should forge new spaces of remembrance that reach beyond the limits of the archive. Archival Entanglements posits the archive as both a generative site of knowledge production and a constricted force of consolidation around dominant narratives—essentially, as a complex web of theories and practices with which the arts and humanities are fundamentally entangled.
Contributors:
Anurima Banerji, Franco Barchiesi, Puja Batra-Wells, Harmony Bench, Johannah Bird, Leigh Bonds, Iñaki Bonillas, Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Eric Gonzaba, Brian Harnetty, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Kelly Kivland, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Mariah E. Marsden, Mimi ?n??ha, Martin Joseph Ponce, Rebecca Schneider, Amy Shuman, Michelle Wibbelsman, Nicole Wood
Archival Entanglements arrives in the wake of the archival turn in the arts and humanities. What humanists call “the archive” has been challenged, deconstructed, and reinvented, but, as editors Puja Batra-Wells and Harmony Bench show, the conversation about the archive is far from over. In this interdisciplinary collection, contributors from digital humanities, performance studies, labor studies, race and ethnic studies, and more come together to shed new light on how objects, knowledges, environments, bodily practices, and identities are entangled with the archive. Showcasing a range of approaches from traditional essays to artistic engagements, the works in this collection complicate questions of archival memory; raise issues of accessibility, erasure, latency, and surveillance; and ask if we should forge new spaces of remembrance that reach beyond the limits of the archive. Archival Entanglements posits the archive as both a generative site of knowledge production and a constricted force of consolidation around dominant narratives—essentially, as a complex web of theories and practices with which the arts and humanities are fundamentally entangled.
Contributors:
Anurima Banerji, Franco Barchiesi, Puja Batra-Wells, Harmony Bench, Johannah Bird, Leigh Bonds, Iñaki Bonillas, Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Eric Gonzaba, Brian Harnetty, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Kelly Kivland, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Mariah E. Marsden, Mimi ?n??ha, Martin Joseph Ponce, Rebecca Schneider, Amy Shuman, Michelle Wibbelsman, Nicole Wood
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814259955
ISBN-10: 0814259952
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 13 color images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities
ISBN-10: 0814259952
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 13 color images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities
Recenzii
“Edited volumes are their own kind of archive, preserving the felicitous entanglements of prolonged conversation. These authors explore the limits of archival capture across a wide range of memory projects, while exemplifying the possibilities of creative redeployment.” —Dorothy Noyes, author of Humble Theory: Folklore’s Grasp on Social Life
“Archival Entanglements covers a notable breadth of topics while effectively making the case that inquiries into the nature of the archive are essential at this moment in history. A timely and wide-ranging collection.” —Karen Eliot, author of Albion’s Dance: British Ballet During the Second World War
Notă biografică
Puja Batra-Wells (Editor) Puja Batra-Wells is Associate Director of the Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange at The Ohio State University. She is a scholar of material cultures and folklore and coeditor (with Willow G. Mullins) of The Folklorist in the Marketplace.Harmony Bench (Editor) Harmony Bench is Associate Professor of Dance History and Theory at The Ohio State University and author of Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common. She also collaborates on award-winning digital humanities and data visualization projects in the performing arts.
Extras
The archive is only one technology of memory, but it is the one around which the contributions in this volume are gathered as they consider multiple and entangled archives of objects, environments, land formations, bodily practices, and even genetic sequences. Archival Entanglements arrives in the wake of the archival turn across the arts and humanities to consider the archive anew. “Is it too bold to say that the time of the archive has passed?” Julietta Singh asks in her book No Archive Will Restore You. Indeed, perhaps the archive is over. Certainly, archival authority has been shaken as both scholars and political figures have chipped away at the monumentality of THE ARCHIVE to reveal the fragility of actual archives, and the care and labor required to sustain any site or practice of memory. But perhaps this is precisely why it is time now, again, to return to the archive—to activate its possibilities in alternate directions by beginning rather than ending with multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary entanglements.
To that end, this volume reaches across fields of study and methodological orientations within the humanities without reducing the unique perspectives of each modality in the process. Contributors come from performance, labor studies, digital humanities, area studies, history, literature, and visual arts, with perspectives on race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, trauma, de/colonization, and more. Some contributors are engaged with what feminist scholar Ann Cvetkovich calls “actually existing archives.” Others are engaged with the archive as a structure of power and as a concept that is itself laden with history, evidencing the ongoing influence of philosopher Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge, in which he conceptualizes the archive not as a repository of records but as the set of discourses that regulate what can be said and therefore what can be known. By now, the archive has been thoroughly challenged, deconstructed, multiplied, and reinvented, so with what new questions do scholars and artists return to the archive?
Reflecting the diversity of contributions, Archival Entanglements posits the archive as simultaneously a generative mode of inquiry, an invention, a form of memory-holding, and a site of knowledge production, even as it is also a conservative force of institutional consolidation around dominant narratives. We find that the connection between archives and official histories remains an important one, as demonstrated by the consequential tussles between the US National Archives and the White House regarding presidential records during Trump’s first administration, and disappearing federal data in his second. However, this volume focuses more on unofficial archives, incompleteness in the record, and archiving from the margins. With these emphases, Archival Entanglements is situated within a vibrant literature that addresses the limitations and harms of archival thought, as well as how bodily, nonmaterial, and digital practices of memory-keeping offer archival alternatives. In the remainder of this introduction, we focus on texts and approaches that have informed this specific collection, and then lay out central themes that guide the organization of this book. We conclude by framing our own stakes in these conversations as editors.
To that end, this volume reaches across fields of study and methodological orientations within the humanities without reducing the unique perspectives of each modality in the process. Contributors come from performance, labor studies, digital humanities, area studies, history, literature, and visual arts, with perspectives on race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, trauma, de/colonization, and more. Some contributors are engaged with what feminist scholar Ann Cvetkovich calls “actually existing archives.” Others are engaged with the archive as a structure of power and as a concept that is itself laden with history, evidencing the ongoing influence of philosopher Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge, in which he conceptualizes the archive not as a repository of records but as the set of discourses that regulate what can be said and therefore what can be known. By now, the archive has been thoroughly challenged, deconstructed, multiplied, and reinvented, so with what new questions do scholars and artists return to the archive?
Reflecting the diversity of contributions, Archival Entanglements posits the archive as simultaneously a generative mode of inquiry, an invention, a form of memory-holding, and a site of knowledge production, even as it is also a conservative force of institutional consolidation around dominant narratives. We find that the connection between archives and official histories remains an important one, as demonstrated by the consequential tussles between the US National Archives and the White House regarding presidential records during Trump’s first administration, and disappearing federal data in his second. However, this volume focuses more on unofficial archives, incompleteness in the record, and archiving from the margins. With these emphases, Archival Entanglements is situated within a vibrant literature that addresses the limitations and harms of archival thought, as well as how bodily, nonmaterial, and digital practices of memory-keeping offer archival alternatives. In the remainder of this introduction, we focus on texts and approaches that have informed this specific collection, and then lay out central themes that guide the organization of this book. We conclude by framing our own stakes in these conversations as editors.
Cuprins
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction Entangled with the Archive
Part 1 Gaps, Erasures, and an Ethics of Recognition
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 The End of a World / As We Knew It
Chapter 2 Emily Jungmin Yoon’s Archival Poetics: “Comfort Women” Testimonies and Literary Justice in A Cruelty Special to Our Species
Chapter 3 Marginalia
Chapter 4 Caring, Keeping, and Kinship-Making: Unaffiliated Ancestors in the Space of the Archive
Chapter 5 Archival Instabilities: From Ephemerality to Newfound Significance
Chapter 6 Archival Forethought
Part 2 Networked Memories and Minor Histories
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 7 The American Gay Bar T-Shirt: Understanding Queer Nightlife Histories with the Wearing Gay History Archive
Chapter 8 Archival Encounters: Lesbian Newsletters and Rural Visibility
Chapter 9 Forest Listening Rooms: Sound, Archives, and Social Engagement in Appalachian Ohio
Chapter 10 Countering Environmental Narratives with Archival Latencies
Chapter 11 Imagining Digital Bibliography as Archival Intervention
Part 3 Ancestral Practices and Otherwise Archives
Part 3 Introduction
Chapter 12 Indigenous Meaning-Making, the Limits of Archives, and the Promise of Practice
Chapter 13 The Laws of Movement: The Natyashastra, Caste, and the Archives of Indian Classical Dance
Chapter 14 Labor History, Social Death, and the Birth of the Black Worker
Chapter 15 What Else: Gesture and Glitch in “What Is a Better Life”
Chapter 16 Slow Scrape Event Scores
Prelude by Kelly Kivland
Chapter 17 mookii, agaasaa: poems
Conclusion Entanglements in Expanding Archival Contexts
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction Entangled with the Archive
Part 1 Gaps, Erasures, and an Ethics of Recognition
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 The End of a World / As We Knew It
Chapter 2 Emily Jungmin Yoon’s Archival Poetics: “Comfort Women” Testimonies and Literary Justice in A Cruelty Special to Our Species
Chapter 3 Marginalia
Chapter 4 Caring, Keeping, and Kinship-Making: Unaffiliated Ancestors in the Space of the Archive
Chapter 5 Archival Instabilities: From Ephemerality to Newfound Significance
Chapter 6 Archival Forethought
Part 2 Networked Memories and Minor Histories
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 7 The American Gay Bar T-Shirt: Understanding Queer Nightlife Histories with the Wearing Gay History Archive
Chapter 8 Archival Encounters: Lesbian Newsletters and Rural Visibility
Chapter 9 Forest Listening Rooms: Sound, Archives, and Social Engagement in Appalachian Ohio
Chapter 10 Countering Environmental Narratives with Archival Latencies
Chapter 11 Imagining Digital Bibliography as Archival Intervention
Part 3 Ancestral Practices and Otherwise Archives
Part 3 Introduction
Chapter 12 Indigenous Meaning-Making, the Limits of Archives, and the Promise of Practice
Chapter 13 The Laws of Movement: The Natyashastra, Caste, and the Archives of Indian Classical Dance
Chapter 14 Labor History, Social Death, and the Birth of the Black Worker
Chapter 15 What Else: Gesture and Glitch in “What Is a Better Life”
Chapter 16 Slow Scrape Event Scores
Prelude by Kelly Kivland
Chapter 17 mookii, agaasaa: poems
Conclusion Entanglements in Expanding Archival Contexts
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
Descriere
A multidisciplinary collection that probes the possibilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities of the archive and its entangled relationship with the arts and humanities.