Archival silences : missing, lost and, uncreated archives

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Introduction*
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 1: Theorising the silences
	Silences only exist when researchers in the archives notice them
	Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
	The ending of silences does not always resolve issues
	The marginalised are not the only ones to suffer from silences
	Silencing has been part of government’s policies for millennia
	The textuality of archives can hide their meaning
	The real silence of the archive
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Websites
Chapter 2: What are silences?: The Australian example
	Cook and indigenous Australians
	Storytellers’ archives – silenced by definition
	Controlling the convict record
	The inevitable limits of Australia’s First World War record
	Patrick White’ self-silencing and the fruits of disobedience
	The silencing reality of established arrangements
	A silencing detention system
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Silent contemporary records: Access to the archive of the Special Investigation Commission in Iceland, 2010–2019
	The background
	A small nation on a large island
	Big ambitions
	Facing national bankruptcy
	The Emergency Act October 2008 and the fall of the banks
	The Pots and Pans Revolution
	The Special Investigation Commission (SIC) and its findings
	Findings – what was the truth?
	Too rapid growth
	Negligence by politicians, bankers and auditors
	Lack of record management
	The archive of the commission
	Organizing the archive
	A new role for the National Archives
	Outsourced legal consulting
	Access to official information
	Inquires and requests of access to the SIC archive
	Laws and rules on access to the SIC archive
	The nature of the inquiries to the SIC archive
	The nature of the answers of the NAI
	Handling a request on access
	Who wants access?
	Private persons
	Researchers
	Journalists
	Prosecutors
	Insurance companies
	The Governmental Information Committee
	Verdicts of the Governmental Information Committee
	Court cases
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Sources on the internet
		The archive of the National Archives of Iceland (NAI)
		Printed
Chapter 4: Noises in the archives: Acknowledging the present yet silenced presence in Caribbean archival memory*
	Noises in the blood: an allegory of a society
	Documenting Rastafari
	Archival records on Rastafari
	Need for Rastafari voices
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Websites
	Books and articles
Chapter 5: Silenced and unsilenced memories: Archival fonds of Brazil’s political police, 1964–1985
	Introduction
		Brazilian dictatorship in the Latin American context
		Rights reparation policy and archives
		Truth commissions and archives
	Final remarks
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Uncovering archival silences through photographs and listening: Envisioning archives as a democratic space
	Marcos regime and its silences
	Listening to the silences through photographs
	Archives as a democratic space for the future
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Silences in Malawi’s archives
	Introduction
	The African Lakes Corporation
	Records destroyed by termites and fire
	Records destroyed by cyclone
		Loss of records at district offices
		Loss of records at Native Authority level
	State creation of silences in the archives
	Exportation and destruction of archives
	Prohibition of access to the archive
	Institutional challenges
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Central African Archives
Chapter 8: Perceived silence in the Turkish archives: From the Ottoman Empire to modern republic
	Introduction
	The newly founded Ottoman state: War, fires and floods
	From state to empire: Centralisation, historical actors and reform
	Recordkeeping practices and legal framework
		Access to Turkish public records
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Other sources
Chapter 9: Silenced archives and archived voices: Archival resources for a history of post-independence India
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Websites
	Books and articles
Chapter 10: The voices of children and adolescents in the archives
	Punishment in primary schools 1829–1906
	Officials’ assessment of children as witnesses
	Mistreatment of school children during 16 years
	Reluctance to recognise abuse
	The voice of an angry mother
	Violence against children in the heyday of the nuclear family, 1945–1960
		Contacting the police
	Overlooked victims? The positions of children in cases of domestic dispute
		Children as victims
		Children as informants
		Children as participants
		Children as shadow agents
	Police discretion
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Books and articles
	Websources
Chapter 11: Diaries and silence
	Silences from without: The problem of institutional and professionally imposed silences
	Silences within diaries
	Personal and introspective
	Regular and frequent
	Honesty and frankness
	Secrecy and privacy
	Self-writing and interpretation as an ‘exercise’
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 12: Filling the gaps
	Introduction
	The paradox of tyranny
	Exploring other resources
	Critical reading
	Rebel and rogue archives
		Rebel archives
	Rogue archives
	What can archives do?
		Be bolder
		Be more unruly
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Websites
Afterword: Tales from the sometimes ‘silent’ archives
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Printed Works
		Manuscripts
Index