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Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century

Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kelly Wooten, Lyz Bly (Editor)Publish date:2012-06-01Pages:196
Language:EnglishPublisher:Litwin BooksISBN-13:9781936117130ISBN-10:1936117134UPC:9781936117130Book Category:Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, TravelBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Library & Information Science, Special InterestBook Topic:Archives & Special Libraries, LGBTQ+Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCRPT4NKFC
Documenting Feminist Activism addresses the practical and theoretical challenges and advantages of researching, documenting, and archiving recent and contemporary activists in the feminist and queer movements. In the last few decades, the place and practice of activism has shifted from a physical "headquarters" where activists convene to plan and strategize, to the reality where planning happens at various desks and kitchen tables across the country (or world) and activists then convene at one site for an action (the prime example of this being the WTO protest in Seattle in 1999). So much of the work is taking place in the digital environment and/or within smaller do-it-yourself (DIY) and anarchist subcultures where ideas are often shared via zines and other ephemeral materials. The challenge of the archivist and the scholar, whose work is traditionally paper-based, is to keep up with the changing modes of communication of these individuals and organizations and to make sure these activists' work is not left out of the historical record. Activists, archivists, librarians, and scholars address the following issues and topics: the practical material challenges of documenting and archiving contemporary activism; theoretical perspectives and conversations; online communities and communications; "third wave" feminism/youth and queer cultures/subcultures; the move from paper to digital archives and documents; zines; and the work of activists who employ creative/artistic/cultural approaches to work for social justice.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Litwin BooksISBN-13:9781936117130ISBN-10:1936117134UPC:9781936117130Book Category:Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, TravelBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Library & Information Science, Special InterestBook Topic:Archives & Special Libraries, LGBTQ+Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCRPT4NKFC
Publisher: Litwin Books

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