ABSTRACT

Worldwide inquiries into childhood institutionalization repeatedly document systemic and enduring problems with fractured and fragmented recordkeeping and archiving systems that put the protection of organizations and institutions ahead of the safety and wellbeing of those in their care. As importantly, they demonstrate how much recordkeeping matters in people’s lives and the role that records play in developing and nurturing identity, connection to family, community, and culture, and as instruments of accountability, restitution, and redress. They highlight the transdisciplinarity inherent in recordkeeping endeavours, and for research and praxis in child welfare and protection to transcend disciplinary, professional, and community boundaries to ensure that systems created to protect children from neglect and abuse do not themselves cause harm. In this article we explore the transformative justice approach of the Archives and the Rights of the Child Research Programme, that, through transdisciplinary collaborations investigating rights-based recordkeeping, aims to advance archival autonomy, the ability of individuals and communities to participate in organizational and societal evidence and memory structures with their own voice. This broad re-imagining of recordkeeping is vital if we are to escape endless cycles of ambiguous and disappointing transitional justice outcomes, through recognizing voice and agency in recordkeeping as a human right.

摘要

世界范围内对儿童收容所的调查反复记录了系统性和持久性问题，这些问题是支离破碎的记录保存和存档系统，这些问题将组织和机构的保护置于其照料者的安全和福祉之上。同样重要的是，它们展示了记录保存在人们生活中的重要性，以及记录在发展和培养身份、与家庭、社区和文化的联系以及作为问责、赔偿和补救工具方面的作用。它们强调了记录保存工作所固有的跨学科性，以及儿童福利和保护方面的研究和实践超越学科、专业和社区界限，以确保为保护儿童免受忽视和虐待而创建的系统本身不会造成伤害。在本文中，我们探讨了档案和儿童权利研究计划的变革性正义方法，即通过调查基于权利的记录保存的跨学科合作，旨在促进档案自治、个人和社区参与组织和社会的能力证据和记忆结构用他们自己的声音。如果我们要通过将记录保存中的声音和代理权视为一项人权来摆脱模棱两可和令人失望的过渡司法结果的无休止循环，那么对记录保存进行广泛的重新构想至关重要。个人和社区以自己的声音参与组织和社会证据以及记忆结构的能力。如果我们要通过将记录保存中的声音和代理权视为一项人权来摆脱模棱两可和令人失望的过渡司法结果的无休止循环，那么对记录保存进行广泛的重新构想至关重要。个人和社区以自己的声音参与组织和社会证据和记忆结构的能力。如果我们要通过将记录保存中的声音和代理权视为一项人权来摆脱模棱两可和令人失望的过渡司法结果的无休止循环，那么对记录保存进行广泛的重新构想至关重要。