This paper presents the aims and findings of two research projects— Rights in Records by Design and Indigenous Archiving and Cultural Safety —making particular reference to the ways in which Australia’s current child welfare systems and their recordkeeping and archival praxis have been indelibly shaped by colonization and its legacies, which persist into the twenty-first century. We posit that the classist, heteropatriarchal, sexist and racist colonial constructs of child welfare, the neglected and criminal child, and Indigeneity persist to this day and continue to be embodied in the form and content of records and archives, as well as in the principles and values embedded in recordkeeping and archival systems. The paper begins with discussion of framing concepts drawn from records continuum theory and critical theory, followed by an overview of both projects. We then explore in-depth findings of the Rights Charter, Historical Justice, and Educational components of Rights in Records by Design and Indigenous Archiving and Cultural Safety with particular attention to colonial values and negative constructs of childhood and Indigeneity, respectively, and their impacts from colonial times to the present. Importantly, we discuss the intersection of constructs of childhood and Indigeneity with colonial values and constructs embedded in recordkeeping and archiving systems. We note that the primary purpose of recordkeeping in colonial times was to provide critical infrastructure that enabled imperial control and exploitation. Consequently, we point to the need for childhood recordkeeping and archiving itself to be decolonized, to embody constructs of the child as having agency and rights, and, in turn, to play its part in decolonizing childhood. Finally, we discuss the contributions that each project is making to decolonizing recordkeeping and archiving theory and practice, and the potential for decolonized recordkeeping and archiving to play their part in decolonizing childhood for children in out-of-home Care and Indigenous Australian children caught up in the Indigenous child welfare system, respectively.

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取消儿童户外护理和土著档案馆藏中的档案保存和档案实践

本文介绍了两个研究项目的目的和发现：《设计中的记录权》和《土著档案和文化安全》，特别提到了澳大利亚当前的儿童福利制度及其纪录保存和档案实践是如何通过殖民化和殖民化而不可磨灭地形成的。它的遗产一直延续到二十一世纪。我们认为，儿童福利，被忽视和犯罪的儿童以及原住民的阶级主义，父权制，性别歧视和种族主义殖民主义构想一直延续到今天，并继续体现在记录和档案的形式和内容以及原则中记录保存和档案系统中嵌入的价值。本文首先讨论从记录连续性理论和批判理论得出的框架概念，然后是两个项目的概述。然后，我们通过设计和土著档案与文化安全来深入研究《权利宪章》，《历史正义》和《权利记录》中的教育成分，并特别关注殖民地价值观以及童年和土著的负面构造，以及它们的影响。到现在的殖民时代。重要的是，我们讨论了具有殖民地价值观的童年时期和本土性构造以及嵌入记录保存和归档系统的构造的交集。我们注意到，殖民时期记录保存的主要目的是提供能够进行帝国控制和利用的重要基础设施。因此，我们指出有必要对儿童记录和档案进行非殖民化处理，将儿童的构造体现为具有代理权和权利，并在非殖民化儿童时期发挥其作用。最后，我们讨论每个项目对非殖民化记录保存和归档理论与实践的贡献，以及非殖民化记录保存和归档在非居家照护和澳大利亚土著儿童的童年非殖民化中发挥作用的潜力分别在土著儿童福利制度中。