Disputed Archival Heritage

James Lowry is Associate Professor in Information Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is an Honorary Research Fellow and former co-director of the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies, where he taught following a ten-year career in archives and records management. James is editor of the Routledge Studies in Archives book series.

Foreword by Jeannette Bastian; Legerdemain by Kayo Chingonyi; Introduction by James Lowry; Part I: Places and Sovereignties -- 1. ‘Joint Heritage’: Provincializing an Archival Ideal; 2. ‘Provenance in Place’: Crafting the Vienna Convention for Global Decolonization and Archival Repatriation; 3. Re-placing Evidence: Locating archival displacement in the US Federal Acknowledgement Process; 4. Ngaadzoke Please: A Dare/Inkundla for the Rhodesian Army Records; Part II: Borders and Diasporas – 5. Below the Nation State: Power Asymmetry and Jurisdictional Boundaries around the Archives of the Madeira Archipelago; 6. Records in Motion: The New York Times and the ‘ISIS Files’; 7. Archival Entanglements: Colonial Rule and Records in Namibia; 8. Diasporic, Displaced, Alienated or Shared: Caribbean Literary Archives; Part III: Towards Home – 9. Displaced, Un-placed and Re-placed: Armenian Archives in the US; 10. Claims for Colonial Objects and Claims for Colonial Archives: Can the Two Meet?; 11. The Repatriation of Surinamese archives from the Netherlands: (a) The Dutch Perspective, (b) The Surinamese Perspective; 12. Value Displaced, Value Re/Claimed: Musings on Reparations.