Touches across time: queer as provenance

• Published in: Archival science Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 637 - 656
• Main Author: Freeman, Elliot
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anthropology; Archives & records; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities; Cultural and Media Studies; Cultural Heritage; Information Storage and Retrieval; LGBTQ culture; Library Science; Literature; Original Paper; Provenance; Records management; Continuum; Access; Provenance; Description; Pluralisation; Queer archives

Carolyn Dinshaw describes her queer historical practice as being about looking for “an affective connection, for community, for even a touch across time” (1999, p 21). Queer engagements with records—these touches across time—are not easily or adequately accounted for in current conceptualisations of...