caa a22 4500 606165274 CHVBK 20210128100652.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10502-014-9223-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10502-014-9223-3 Strauss Amanda Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 3 James St., 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA aut Treading the ground of contested memory: archivists and the human rights movement in Chile [Elektronische Daten] [Amanda Strauss] This article proposes a new definition of social justice that is based in liberation theology. It questions the relationship between archival practice and social justice and asks how (and whether) social justice can (or should be) a transformative force in the archival profession. These theoretical questions are examined through a case study of human rights archives. The author travelled to Chile in December 2011 to interview archivists and human rights activists and visit human rights archives, museums, and memorials. The article identifies three archival processes by which archivists in Chile engage in social justice activism: the act of documenting human rights violations that dictator Augusto Pinochet perpetrated during his rule from 1973 to 1990; by continually acquiring new documents that bear witness to these violations; and by providing, indeed encouraging and promoting, access to these materials. The article argues that the way that human rights archivists carry out these archival processes allows the community to participate in building both the archives and the memory of the dictatorship. It concludes by stating that this connection between the archives and the community is one of the primary ways in which social justice can be integrated into the archival profession. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Human rights nationallicence Social justice nationallicence Liberation theology nationallicence Memory nationallicence Chile nationallicence Archival Science Springer Netherlands 15/4(2015-12-01), 369-397 1389-0166 15:4<369 2015 15 10502 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-014-9223-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-014-9223-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Strauss Amanda Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 3 James St., 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archival Science Springer Netherlands 15/4(2015-12-01), 369-397 1389-0166 15:4<369 2015 15 10502