원문보기 : https://prismreports.org/2024/09/17/archive-of-violence/



What frustrates me is that the term “community archive” is relatively recent. Some scholar coined this term to differentiate it from more institutional archives. The efforts to create repositories of information have very rarely been about our communities, even while our communities have documented the violence against us—and our survival—forever. The fact that our communities have documented our own isn’t new, but whether that documentation has had the opportunity to be preserved and saved is a whole other issue. Small nonprofits like ours are increasingly documenting—whether it’s audio recording or video—and preserving cultural records from our communities. We’re digitizing records and locating archival repositories that will take them if far smaller groups aren’t able to do it. Increasingly, we’re obtaining state-generated records of state violence and human rights violations because we know that we need to be able to save those records and make them publicly available.