ABSTRACT

Archives are an integral component in the formation of a nation’s historical narratives. They are both repositories and sources of a nation’s evidence of events. Institutional archives have been striving to incorporate equity and social justice for Indigenous peoples but their practice is still heavily skewed to colonists’ perspectives. In this article, the author uses critical race theory to examine the social media narratives of Australia’s institutional archives during National Reconciliation Week, coinciding with the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprising. She uses the concept of counter-narrative to demonstrate the gaps between narratives about Indigenous peoples and those by Indigenous peoples in contemporary archival narratives as portrayed in social media. She argues that to truly achieve equity and social justice for Indigenous peoples, archives must engage with Indigenous counter-narratives in their collecting and exhibiting practices and bring the institutional and Indigenous narratives closer together.

摘要

档案是一个国家历史叙事形成过程中不可或缺的组成部分。它们既是一个国家的事件证据的储存库和来源。机构档案一直在努力为土著人民纳入公平和社会正义，但他们的做法仍然严重偏向于殖民者的观点。在这篇文章中，作者使用批判性种族理论来检查在全国和解周期间澳大利亚机构档案的社交媒体叙述，恰逢 2020 年黑人生命问题起义。她用反叙事的概念证明的叙述之间的差距大约土著人民和那些通过社交媒体中描绘的当代档案叙事中的土著人民。她认为，要真正实现原住民的公平和社会正义，档案馆必须在其收集和展示实践中参与原住民反叙事，并使机构和原住民叙事更紧密地结合在一起。