Review: Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives, edited by Gesa E. Kirsch, Romeo Garcia, Caitlin Burns Allen, and Walker P. Smith

Book Review| May 01 2024 Review: Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives, edited by Gesa E. Kirsch, Romeo Garcia, Caitlin Burns Allen, and Walker P. Smith Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives edited by Gesa E. Kirsch, Romeo Garcia, Caitlin Burns Allen, and Walker P. Smith. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2023. xiii +321 pp. ; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; paperback, 29. 99; eBook, 29. 99. Dez Alaniz Dez Alaniz Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2024) 46 (2): 190–192. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/tph. 2024. 46. 2. 190 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives, edited by Gesa E. Kirsch, Romeo Garcia, Caitlin Burns Allen, and Walker P. Smith. The Public Historian 1 May 2024; 46 (2): 190–192. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/tph. 2024. 46. 2. 190 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Unsettling Archival Research is an essential contribution to the emergent fields of critical archival and research studies, particularly for those interested in how scholars are working with and against records to understand the histories and experiences of underdocumented and marginalized communities. While rooted in the language and training of academic theory, this collection unites a range of divergent and critical approaches into a polyvocal statement on how researchers and educators can use and create archives in disruptive ways. This collection includes a range of insightful and creative case studies for how academic researchers, largely in the fields of English, composition, and rhetoric, have utilized archival collections in their work. Despite this grounding in academic research, the content of this collection has wide applicability and relevance for anyone working with archival collections, whether they are researchers or folks more directly involved in memory and information work. Overall, this is a strong. . . You do not currently have access to this content.