Published 2022-01-10
Keywords
- Archive,
- Black Box,
- Enviromenal Crises,
- Tragedy of the commons
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Abstract
Current discussions of ecocentric governance, earth law, and environmental and wellbeing economics, offer a sweeping critique of the goods obtained by neoliberal capitalism’s scarcity and self-interest, and suggest other paths leading to degrowth, sustainability, resilience, and anti-fragility. These concepts, in turn, speak to post-custodial ramifications touching on every aspect of the archival endeavor, from design to preservation agendas. This article revisits concepts delineated in an earlier published piece that considers community archives as an archival “tool” and commons. I interrogate the notion of the tragedy of the commons, pointing to both its limitations and benefits within an archival context, and apply Wendell Berry’s criteria for tools to community archives, the concept of the black box, and conventional archives.
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