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Digital archives, historical infrastructures

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Abstract

This chapter explores the lasting effects of digitization and digitalization or datafication on cultural-historical scholarship. The digitization 'revolution'rekindles arguments that, since Foucault, have never quite left the stage: debates about how power relations are shaped by the institutions we inhabit and how people reproduce those relations through the ways in which we develop those institutions. The digitization processes inform a next chapter in the archival turn, but new actors are involved. Researchers have critical insights that can and should be exploited by archives and libraries, to create and curate knowledge in as responsible a way as possible.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCultural History for a Changing World
EditorsJochen Hung, Willemijn Ruberg
Place of PublicationLondon, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Chapter2
Pages89-108
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-3505-5885-4
ISBN (Print)978-1-3505-5883-0
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2026

Publication series

NameCultural History and Historical Culture
PublisherBloomsbury Academic

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