Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum [electronic resource].

Archive Books Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2022

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Awkward Archives proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands of archival research as both disciplines challenge their inner logics and epistemologies. Through fieldwork and ethnographic tools and methods, both analogue and digital, the editors take various contemporary archival sites in Berlin as case studies to elaborate on controversial concepts in Western thought. Presenting as such a modular curriculum on archives in their awkwardness—with the tensions, discomfort and antagonisms they pose. With case studies on Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Hahne-Niehoff Archive and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, among others.
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Archives
Imperialism
Ecology
Information Commons
Sociology

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Margareta von Oswald
Jonas Tinius
Bernd Scherer
Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock
Franka Schneider
Yann LeGall
Tahani Nadim
Hannes Hacke
Adrian Bridget
Matthew James Scown
Corinne Butta
Mia Jaccarini
Scott Pearsall
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Stefan Aue
Lama El Khatib
Natalie Ruhland
Anja Dunkel
Chiara Figone
Sara Marcon