Routledge Studies in Archives
About the Book Series
The Routledge Studies in Archives series publishes new and cutting-edge research in records and archives studies. Recognising the imperative for record-keeping work in support of memory, social justice, technical systems, legal rights and historical understanding, this series extends the disciplinary boundaries of archival studies. It sees the archival in personal, economic and political activity, historically and digitally situated cultures, subcultures and movements, technological and infrastructural developments and in many other places.
Routledge Studies in Archives brings scholarship from diverse academic and cultural traditions into conversation and presents the work of emerging and established scholars, side by side. It promotes the exploration of the intellectual history of archival science, the internationalisation of archival discourse and the building of new archival theory.
The Series Editors invite proposals for books that offer original thinking about archives and records. Proposals should demonstrate that the authors have engaged with the field of archival studies through the incorporation of theories and concepts from that discipline and the citation of authors such as those published in the Routledge Studies in Archives book series. Authors interested in publishing in the series can contact Dr. Ahmed at [email protected] and/or Dr. Lowry at [email protected]. The editors often attend conferences such as those of the International Council on Archives, the Society of American Archives, the UK Archives and Records Association, the Archival Education and Research Institute, and may be available to meet there with prior notice.
Living Indigenous Archives
1st Edition
By Kirsten Thorpe
November 06, 2025
Living Indigenous Archives invites readers to consider new pathways for developing and sustaining archival landscapes that are embedded with respect for Indigenous worldviews and cultural flows of knowledge. Drawing on First Nations experiences in Australia, the book considers the need to reframe ...
The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Breakell, Wendy Russell
June 27, 2025
The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis and interpretation. Focusing on the archives of creative practices, the book reaches between and across existing ...
The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg Bak, Marianne Rostgaard
April 14, 2025
The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving explores the roots and strengths of Nordic digital archiving and proposes new directions to guide digital archivists in addressing the challenges posed by ever-changing digital technologies and the datafication of information and records. Digitization and ...
Archiving Cultures: Heritage, community and the making of records and memory
1st Edition
By Jeannette A. Bastian
October 04, 2024
Archiving Cultures defines and models the concept of cultural archives, focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records. Analysis of oral traditions, memory texts and performance arts...
Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
1st Edition
Edited
By Proscovia Svärd, Bonny Ibhawoh
August 12, 2024
Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions highlights the need for post-conflict societies to have access to - and to use – Truth Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs’) documentation to achieve reconciliation and to work towards a democratic society. Including international contributions ...
Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By John Aarons, Jeannette A. Bastian, Stanley Hazley Griffin
May 27, 2024
Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the "Caribbeanization" of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats. Interpreting records in the broadest sense, the 15 chapters in this volume explore a ...
Exhibiting the Archive: Space, Encounter, and Experience
1st Edition
By Peter Lester
May 27, 2024
Exhibiting the Archive examines the role that exhibition plays in archives and analyses the impact they are understood to have on how users and visitors experience the archive. Drawing on research conducted in Europe, North America and Australia, the book analyses the key theoretical and social ...
The Remaking of Archival Values
1st Edition
By Victoria Hoyle
May 27, 2024
The Remaking of Archival Values posits that archival theory and practice are fields in flux, and that recent critical archival discourse that addresses neoliberalism, racism, and the legacies of colonialism and patriarchy represents a disruption not only to established principles but also to the ...
Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work
1st Edition
By Michelle Caswell
January 09, 2023
Urgent Archives argues that archivists can and should do more to disrupt white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy beyond the standard liberal archival solutions of more diverse collecting and more inclusive description. Grounded in the emerging field of critical archival studies, this book uncovers ...
Ghosts of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis
1st Edition
By Verne Harris
August 01, 2022
Ghosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction, intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamentally and structurally spectral and that the work of archive is justice. Drawing on more than 20 years of the author’s research on ...
Producing the Archival Body
1st Edition
By Jamie A. Lee
August 01, 2022
Producing the Archival Body draws on theoretical and practical research conducted within US and Canadian archives, along with critical and cultural theory, to examine the everyday lived experiences of archivists and records creators that are often overlooked during archival and media production. ...
Archives, Recordkeeping and Social Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By David A. Wallace, Wendy M. Duff, Renée Saucier, Andrew Flinn
December 13, 2021
Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice expands the burgeoning literature on archival social justice and impact. Illuminating how diverse factors shape the relationship between archives, recordkeeping systems, and recordkeepers, this book depicts struggles for different social justice ...