ABSTRACT

Researchers must continually discriminate between competing sources of evidence, knowledge and theoretical justification, selecting who we believe to be credible informants and what we perceive as reliable testimony. In the keeping of records, particularly in the act of appraisal, we utilise methods of evaluation that reflect the social processes, institutional procedures, and interpersonal influences common to our disciplinary milieu. Viewing activist community recordkeeping and archiving through the lens of Rancière and SMT (Social Movement Theory), this article extends theoretical discussion into areas silent in the archival discourse to date. Activists working in radical community recordkeeping environments and archival situations face political and epistemic choices with regard to how and why they represent certain subjects and materials. The authors explore these contentions through the experiences of two such radical archives: Archimovi, an Italian archive of radical social movements; and the archive in a records continuum sense, the radical recordkeeping of animal activist group Direct Action Everywhere, based in the United States.

摘要

研究人员必须不断区分证据、知识和理论依据的竞争来源，选择我们认为可靠的线人以及我们认为可靠的证词。在保存记录时，特别是在评估过程中，我们利用反映社会过程、制度程序和我们学科环境中常见的人际影响的评估方法。通过 Rancière 和 SMT（社会运动理论）的镜头查看激进主义社区记录保存和存档，本文将理论讨论扩展到迄今为止档案话语中沉默的领域。在激进的社区记录保存环境和档案环境中工作的活动家面临着关于他们如何以及为什么代表某些主题和材料的政治和认知选择。作者通过两个这样的激进档案的经历探索了这些争论：Archimovi，激进社会运动的意大利档案；和档案连续统意义上的档案，总部设在美国的动物活动家团体 Direct Action Everywhere 的激进记录。