Caswell, Michelle, and Marika Cifor. “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives.” Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016): 23–43. Caswell and Cifor propose a pivot from the rights-based framework used to discuss social justice in archives in favor…
“‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: Community Archives and the Importance of Representation”
Caswell, Michelle, Alda Allina Migoni, Noah Geraci, and Marika Cifor. “‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: Community Archives and the Importance of Representation.” Archives and Records 38, no. 1 (2017): 5–26. Caswell, Migoni, Geraci, and Cifor advance a new framework…
Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work
Caswell, Michelle. Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work. New York: Routledge, 2021. Urgent Archives reckons with how pervasive and intertwined oppressive and violent practices are within Western archives. Caswell takes us through four chapters that introduce us to how harmful…