Abstract
This paper presents the aims and findings of two research projects—Rights in Records by Design and Indigenous Archiving and Cultural Safety—making particular reference to the ways in which Australia’s current child welfare systems and their recordkeeping and archival praxis have been indelibly shaped by colonization and its legacies, which persist into the twenty-first century. We posit that the classist, heteropatriarchal, sexist and racist colonial constructs of child welfare, the neglected and criminal child, and Indigeneity persist to this day and continue to be embodied in the form and content of records and archives, as well as in the principles and values embedded in recordkeeping and archival systems. The paper begins with discussion of framing concepts drawn from records continuum theory and critical theory, followed by an overview of both projects. We then explore in-depth findings of the Rights Charter, Historical Justice, and Educational components of Rights in Records by Design and Indigenous Archiving and Cultural Safety with particular attention to colonial values and negative constructs of childhood and Indigeneity, respectively, and their impacts from colonial times to the present. Importantly, we discuss the intersection of constructs of childhood and Indigeneity with colonial values and constructs embedded in recordkeeping and archiving systems. We note that the primary purpose of recordkeeping in colonial times was to provide critical infrastructure that enabled imperial control and exploitation. Consequently, we point to the need for childhood recordkeeping and archiving itself to be decolonized, to embody constructs of the child as having agency and rights, and, in turn, to play its part in decolonizing childhood. Finally, we discuss the contributions that each project is making to decolonizing recordkeeping and archiving theory and practice, and the potential for decolonized recordkeeping and archiving to play their part in decolonizing childhood for children in out-of-home Care and Indigenous Australian children caught up in the Indigenous child welfare system, respectively.
Similar content being viewed by others
Change history
17 March 2020
In the original publication of the article, the term ���Indigenous��� in the title was not capitalized. As the article is specifically referring to Indigenous people in Australia, the correct article title should be as given below.
References
Adams K, Faulkhead S (2012) This is not a guide to indigenous research partnerships: but it could help. Inf Commun Soc 15(7):1016–1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.709260
Archival Education and Research Institute’s (AERI) Pluralizing the Archival Curriculum Group (2011) Educating for the archival multiverse. Am Arch 74:69–101
Atkinson J (2002) Trauma trails, recreating song lines: the transgenerational effects of trauma in indigenous Australia. Spinifex Press, North Geelong
Australia. Parliament. Senate Community Affairs References Committee (2004) Forgotten Australians: a report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children. Community Affairs References Committee, Canberra. http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/report/index. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Australian Human Rights Commission (1997) Bringing them home: national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Australian Human Rights Commission, Sydney. https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/pdf/social_justice/bringing_them_home_report.pdf. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Australian Human Rights Commission (2010) The community guide to the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. AHRC, Canberra. https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-social-justice/publications/community-guide-un. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018a) Child protection Australia 2016–2017 (Child Welfare Series No. 68). AIHW, Canberra
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018b) Child protection Australia 2016–2017. Supplementary data tables. AIHW, Canberra
Australian Museum (2018) Glossary of indigenous Australia terms. The Australian Museum. https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/cultural-objects/glossary-indigenous-australia-terms. Accessed 25 June 2019
Bainbridge R (2007) Autoethnography in indigenous research contexts: the value of inner knowing. J Aust Indig Issues 10(2):54–64
Baker DG (1983) Race, ethnicity, and power: A comparative study. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, Boston
Bastian J (2003) Owning memory: how a Caribbean community lost its archives and found its history. Libraries Unlimited, Westport
Bessant J, Watts R (2016) Children and the law: an historical overview. In: Young L, Kenny M, Monahan G (eds) Children and the law in Australia. Lexis Nexis, Chatswood, pp 1–30
Bone J (2017) Maria Montessori as domestic goddess: iconic early childhood educator and material girl. Gend Educ. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2017
Bone J (2018) Moving the spirit: holistic education and young children. In: Miller J, Nigh K, Binder M, Novak B, Crowell S (eds) International handbook of holistic education. Routledge, New York, pp 70–79
Cannella GS, Viruru R (2004) Childhood and postcolonization: Power, education, and contemporary practice. Routledge Falmer, New York
Carr M (2001) Assessment in early childhood settings. Sage, Thousand Oaks
Caswell M, Cifor M (2016) From human rights to feminist ethics: radical empathy in the archives. Archivaria 81:23–43
Children’s Welfare Act (1933) (Vic) (Aust). http://www9.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/vic/hist_act/cwa1933167/. Accessed 15 Aug 2019
Children’s Welfare Act (1954) (Vic) (Aust). http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/cwa1954167/. Accessed 15 Aug 2019
Christen K (2011) Opening archives: respectful repatriation. Am Arch 74(1):185–210
Commission for Children and Young People (2014) Cultural safety for Aboriginal children. https://ccyp.vic.gov.au/assets/resources/tipsheet-cultural-safety-aboriginal-children.pdf. Accessed 28 Oct 2018
Cunneen C, Hocking B (2005) Consensus and sovereignty: rethinking policing in the light of indigenous self-determination. In: Hocking BA (ed) Unfinished constitutional business? Rethinking indigenous self-determination. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp 47–60
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (2009) The early years learning framework for Australia. DEEWR, Canberra. https://docs.education.gov.au/node/2632. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2011) An outline of national standards for out-of-home care. Department of social services, Canberra. https://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/publications-articles/an-outline-of-national-standards-for-out-of-home-care-2011. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Department of Social Services, Commonwealth of Australia (2015) Access to records by forgotten Australians and former child migrants: access principles for records holders, best practice guidelines in providing access to records. Commonwealth government. https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/downloadfile.ashx?guid=5177243f-0484-48ab-9984-46a07e3e1f04&type=exhibit&filename=DHS.3148.001.0079&fileextension=pdf. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
DiAngelo R (2011) White fragility. Int J Crit Pedagogy 3(3):54–70
Drake J (2017) In defense of offense. Medium—on archivy. https://medium.com/on-archivy/in-defense-of-offense-3ff6251df9c0. Accessed 28 Oct 2018
eScholarship Research Centre (2016) Records and rights of the child—transcripts of focus group discussions held in Canberra, Brisbane and Sydney. Find and Connect project records for 2016 Melbourne engagement grant scheme. Archives of the eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne
Evans J, McKemmish S, Daniels E, McCarthy G (2015) Self-determination and archival autonomy: advocating activism. Arch Sci 15(4):337–368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-015-9244-6
Evans J, McKemmish S, Rolan G (2017) Critical approaches to archiving and recordkeeping in the continuum. J Crit Libr Inf Stud 1(2):1–38
Evans J, McKemmish S, Rolan G (2019) Participatory information governance: transforming recordkeeping for childhood out-of-home Care. Rec Manag J 29(1/2):178–193. https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2018-0041
Family and Community Services (2018) Caring for a child. https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/carers/kinship/caring-for-a-child/chapters/life-story-work. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Faulkhead S (2008) Narratives of Koorie Victoria. Ph D thesis, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Ferguson H (2007) Abused and looked after children as ‘moral dirt’: child abuse and institutional care in historical perspective. J Soc Policy 36(1):123–149
Find and Connect Web Resource Project Team (2011) Find and connect. http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Fourmile H (1989) Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives. Aborig Hist 13:1–2
Ghaddar J (2016) The spectre in the archive: truth, reconciliation, and indigenous archival memory. Archivaria 82:3–26
Giddens A (1984) The constitution of society. Polity Press, Cambridge
Gilliland A, Caswell M (2016) Records and their imaginaries: imagining the impossible, making possible the imagined. Arch Sci 16(1):53–75
Gilliland A, Flinn A (2013) The wonderful and frightening world of community archives: what are we really talking about? In: Stillman L, Sabiescu A, Memarovic N (eds) Nexus, confluence, and difference: community archives meets community informatics: Prato CIRN conference. Centre for Community Networking Research, Centre for Social Informatics, Monash University, 28–30 Oct 2013
Golding F (2018) ‘Problems with records and recordkeeping practices are not confined to the past’: a challenge from the Royal Commission. Paper delivered at 16th CIRN Conference, Prato Italy, 24–26 Oct 2018
Golding F, Wilson J (2018) ‘PLEASE SIR, Will you be kind to tell me if I have got brothers or sisters…’: a paper delivered at the European social sciences history conference, Belfast, 4 Apr 2018
Golding F, Wilson J (2019) Lost and found: counter-narratives of dis/located families. In: Musgrove N, Moruzi K (eds) Children’s voices from the past. Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, Cham
Griffiths B, Russell L, Roberts R (2017). Friday essay: when did Australia’s human history begin? The conversation, 17 Nov 2017. https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-when-did-australias-human-history-begin-87251. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Grosfoguel R (2011) Decolonizing post-colonial studies and paradigms of political-economy: transmodernity, decolonial thinking, and global coloniality. Transmodernity J Peripher Cult Prod Luso-Hispanic World 1(1). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21k6t3fq. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Harré R (1993) Social being. Blackwell, Oxford
Harris M, Carlson B, Poata-Smith E (2013) Indigenous identities and the politics of authenticity. In: Harris M, Nakata M, Carlson B (eds) The politics of identity: emerging Indigeneity. University of Technology Sydney E-Press, Sydney, pp 1–9
Hurley C (2005a) Parallel provenance: (1) what if anything is archival description? Arch Manuscr 33(1):110–145
Hurley C (2005b) Parallel provenance: (2) when something is not related to everything else. Arch Manuscr 33(2):52–91
Iacovino L (2015) Shaping and reshaping cultural identity and memory: maximising human rights through a participatory archive. Arch Manuscr 43(1):29–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2014.961491
Jenks C (2005) Childhood. Routledge, London
Keating P (2010) Asia in the new order. Recording and transcript of the Keith Murdoch Oration by former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating, State Library of Victoria, 14 Nov 2012. http://exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/dome100/multimedia/paul-keating-asia-new-order. Accessed 22 Oct 2018
Ketelaar E (2002) Archival temples, archival prisons: modes of power and protection. Arch Sci 2(3–4):221–238
Ketelaar E (2005) Sharing: collected memories in communities of records. Arch Manuscr 33(1):44–61
Ketelaar E (2006) Access democratic imperative. Arch Manuscr 34(2):62–81
Kociumbas J (2004) Genocide and modernity in colonial Australia, 1788–1850. In: Moses A (ed) Genocide and settler society: frontier violence and stolen indigenous children in Australian history. Berghahn Books, New York, pp 77–102
Lewis A (2017). Records and rights of the child: report of focus discussions. eScholarship Research Centre, The University of Melbourne. http://rights-records.it.monash.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017-01-27-Records-Rights-of-the-Child-Final-Report.pdf. Accessed 25 Jun 2019
Lewis A (2018) Omelettes in the stack: archival fragility and the aforeafter. Archivaria 86:46–69
MacNeil H (2018) The role of catalogues in the shifting knowledge climates of museums and archived. Presented at ICHORA 8: archives in a changing climate, Melbourne, 28–30 May 2018
Malaguzzi L (1998) History, ideas, and basic philosophy: an interview with Leila Gandini. In: Edwards C, Gandini L, Forman G (eds) The hundred languages of children. Ablex, Westport, pp 49–99
Manne R (2001) In denial: the stolen generations and the right. Q Essay 1:1–113
McCallum D (2017) Criminalizing children: welfare and the state in Australia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
McGrath A, Jebb MA (eds) (2015) Long history, deep time. ANU Press and Aboriginal History, Canberra
McGregor R (2002) ‘Breed out the colour’ or the importance of being white. Aust Hist Stud 33(120):286–302. https://doi.org/10.1080/10314610208596220
McKemmish S (2001) Placing records continuum theory and practice. Arch Sci 1(4):333–359
McKemmish S (2005) Traces: document, record, archive, archives. In: McKemmish S, Piggott P, Reed B, Upward F (eds) Archives: recordkeeping in society. Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, pp 1–20
McKemmish S (2017) Recordkeeping in the Continuum. an Australian tradition. In: Gilliland A, McKemmish S, Lau A (eds) Research in the archival multiverse. Monash University Publishing, Clayton, pp 122–160
McKemmish S, Piggott M (2013) Toward the archival multiverse: challenging the binary opposition of the personal and corporate archive in modern archival theory and practice. Archivaria 76:111–144
McKemmish S, Faulkhead S, Russell L (2011a) Dis-trust in the archive: reconciling records. Arch Sci 11(3–4):211–239
McKemmish S, Iacovino L, Ketelaar E, Castan M, Russell L (2011b) Resetting relationships: archives and indigenous human rights in Australia. Arch Manuscr 39(11):107–144
McKemmish S, Faulkhead S, Chandler T (2019) Imagine: a living archive of people and place ‘somewhere beyond custody’. Arch Sci (Special issue of selected papers from ICHORA 8: Archives in a changing climate, Melbourne, 28–30 May 2018
Ministry of Education (1996) Te Whāriki: He whāriki mātauranga mo ngā mokopuna o Aotearoa, early childhood curriculum. Learning Media, Wellington
Monash University Caulfield School of Information Technology and Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, the Public Record Office of Victoria, the Koorie Heritage Trust Inc., the Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce, and the Australian Society of Archivists Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group (2009a) Trust and technology: building archival systems for indigenous oral memory. Final report of the Australian Research Council Project. https://www.monash.edu/it/our-research/research-centres-and-labs/cosi/projects/completed-projects/trust/final-report. Accessed 17 Aug 2018
Monash University Caulfield School of Information Technology and Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, the Public Record Office of Victoria, the Koorie Heritage Trust Inc., the Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce, and the Australian Society of Archivists Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group (2009b) Trust and technology: building archival systems for Indigenous oral memory. Australian Research Council Project. Statement of principles relating to Australian indigenous knowledge and the archives. https://www.monash.edu/it/our-research/research-centres-and-labs/cosi/projects/completed-projects/trust/principles. Accessed 18 Aug 2018
Monash University Caulfield School of Information Technology and Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, the Public Record Office of Victoria, the Koorie Heritage Trust Inc., the Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce, and the Australian Society of Archivists Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group (2009c) Trust and technology: building archival systems for indigenous oral memory. Australian Research Council Project. Position statement: human rights, indigenous communities in Australia and archives. https://www.monash.edu/it/our-research/research-centres-and-labs/cosi/projects/completed-projects/trust/position-statement. Accessed 17 Aug 2018
Moreton-Robinson A (2015) The white possessive: property, power, and indigenous sovereignty. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
Musgrove N (2013) The scars remain: a long history of forgotten Australians and children’s institutions. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, pp 25–26
National Children’s Commissioner (2017) Children’s rights report 2017. Australian Human Rights Commission. https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/AHRC_CRR_2017.pdf. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Norgard J (1976) Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Child Care Services in Victoria. Government Printer, Melbourne
Pascoe B (2014) Dark emu black seeds: agriculture or accident?. Magabala Books, Djugun
Penglase J (2005) Orphans of the living: growing up in ‘care’ in twentieth-century Australia. Fremantle Press, Fremantle
Piggott M (2012) Archives and societal provenance: Australian essays. Chandos Publishing, Oxford
Pihama L (2015) Kaupapa Māori theory: transforming theory in Aotearoa. In: Pihama L, Tiakiwai S-J, Southey K (eds) Kaupapa rangahau: a reader. A collection of readings from the Kaupapa Rangahau workshops series, 2nd edn. Te Kotahi Research Institute, Hamilton
Public Record Office Victoria (1864–1966) Children’s register, VPRS 4527, P0002, book 1. Victorian Public Records Office, Melbourne
Quijano A (2000) Coloniality of power, Eurocentrism and Latin America. Nepentla Views South 1(3):533–580
Read P, New South Wales, Department of Aboriginal Affairs (1981) The stolen generations: The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883–1969. NSW Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs, Surry Hills, N.S.W
Reed B, Frings-Hessami V, Evans J (2017). National summit 8–9 May 2017 report. Setting the Record Straight: for the rights of the child. Melbourne, Australia. https://rights-records.it.monash.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ReportFinal-1.pdf. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Rolan G (2016) Agency in the archive: a model for participatory recordkeeping. Arch Sci 17(3):195–225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-016-9267-7
Rolan G, Evans J, Bone J, Lewis A, Golding F, Wilson J, McKemmish S, Mendes P, Reeves K (2018) Weapons of affect: the imperative for transdisciplinary information systems design. Paper presented at ASIS&T 2018 building and sustaining an ethical future with emerging technology, Vancouver, Canada, 10–14 Nov 2018
Rose DB (1991) Hidden histories: black stories from Victoria River Downs. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, Humbert River and Wave Hill Stations
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1991) Royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody—national report. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/rciadic/. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2016) Consultation paper records and recordkeeping practices. Commonwealth of Australia, Sydney. https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/2016-08/consultation-paper-on-records-and-recordkeeping-released. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2017) Final report. Royal Commission into Institutional Responses To Child Sexual Abuse. Commonwealth of Australia, Sydney. https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/final-report. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Scott J, Ward J, Hill M (2008) The health of looked-after children in residential care. In: Kendrick A (ed) Residential child care: prospects and challenges. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London
Setting the Record Straight for the Rights of the Child Initiative (2017) Setting the record straight: for the rights of the child. https://rights-records.it.monash.edu/. Accessed 18 Feb 2019
Setting the Record Straight for the Rights of the Child Initiative (2017) Strategic plan. http://rights-records.it.monash.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Strategic_Plan_Final_Amended.pdf. Accessed 18 Feb 2019
Sherwood J (2009) Who is not coping with colonization? Laying out the map for decolonization. Aust Psychiatry 17(1_suppl):S24–S27
Short D (2010) Australia: a continuing genocide? J Genocide Res 12(1–2):45–68
Smith LT (2012) Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples. Zed, London
Smith G (2015) The dialectic relation of theory and practice in the development of Kaupapa Māori praxis. In: Pihama L, Tiakiwai S-J, Southey K (eds) Kaupapa rangahau: a reader. A collection of readings from the Kaupapa Rangahau workshops series, 2nd edn. Te Kotahi Research Institute, Hamilton
Smith C, Jackson G, Gray G, Copley V (2018) Who owns a family’s story? Why it’s time to lift the Berndt field notes embargo. The conversation. https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-who-owns-a-familys-story-why-its-time-to-lift-the-berndt-field-notes-embargo-94652. Accessed 28 Oct 2018
Springle N (2018) Video interview, Frank Golding and Nell Butler, Parliament House Victoria, 21 Aug 2018. https://www.facebook.com/ninaspringleAGV/videos/678194585895260/. Accessed 18 Feb 2019
Star S, Bowker G (2007) Enacting silence: residual categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication. Eth Inf Technol 9(4):273–280
Stoler A (2002) Colonial archives and the arts of governance. Arch Sci 2(1):87–109
Swain S (2014a) History of Australian inquiries reviewing institutions providing care for children. https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/file-list/Research%20Report%20-%20History%20of%20Australian%20inquiries%20reviewing%20institutions%20providing%20care%20for%20children%20-%20Institutional%20responses.pdf. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Swain S (2014b). History of child protection legislation. Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Sydney. https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/pacra/history-child-protection-legislation. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Thorpe K (2001) Indigenous records: how far have we come in bringing the history back home? Arch Manuscr 29(2):10–31
Thorpe K (2017) Aboriginal community archives: a case study in ethical community research. In: Gilliland A, McKemmish S, Lau L (eds) Research in the archival multiverse. Monash University Publishing, Clayton, pp 900–934
United Nations and Canada (1994) Convention on the rights of the child. Human Rights Directorate, Ottawa. https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx. Accessed 28 Oct 2018
United Nations Commission on Human Rights (2007) United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. United Nations, New York. http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Upward F (1996) Structuring the records continuum: part one. Arch Manuscr 24(2):268–285
Upward F, McKemmish S, Reed B (2009) The Records Continuum Model. In: Bates M, Niles-Maack M (eds) Encyclopedia of library and information sciences, 3rd edn. Taylor and Francis, New York, pp 4447–4459
Van Krieken R (1992) Children and the state: social control and the formation of Australian child welfare. Allen and Unwin, Sydney
Victoria (1879) Industrial and reformatory schools, report of the Inspector for the year 1878. Government Printer, Melbourne
Victims and other legislation amendment act (2018) (Vic) (Aust). http://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/Domino/Web_Notes/LDMS/PubStatbook.nsf/f932b66241ecf1b7ca256e92000e23be/B037E0064F75BC2CCA258305000D1109/$FILE/18-042aa%20authorised.pdf. Accessed 15 Aug 2019
Wahlquist C (2018) Indigenous children in care doubled since stolen generations. The guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jan/25/indigenous-children-in-care-doubled-since-stolen-generations-apology. Accessed 25 Oct 2018
Wilkes S (2011) The children history forgot: young workers of the industrial age. Robert Hale, London
Williams R (1999) Cultural safety—what does it mean for our work practice? Aust N Z J Public Health 2(2):213–214
Wilson J, Golding F (2015) Contested memories: caring about the past—or past caring? In: Sköld J, Swain S (eds) Apologies and the legacy of abuse of children in ‘care’: international perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp 27–41
Wilson J, Golding F (2016) Latent scrutiny: personal archives as perpetual mementos of the official gaze. Arch Sci 16(1):93–109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-015-9255-3
Winn S (2017) The hubris of neutrality in archives. Medium—on archivy. https://medium.com/on-archivy/the-hubris-of-neutrality-in-archives-8df6b523fe9f. Accessed 28 Oct 2018
Acknowledgements
The Rights in Records by Design Project is funded through an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant DP170100198. The Chief Investigators are Associate Professor Joanne Evans (Monash University), Associate Professor Jacqueline Wilson (Federation University Australia), Professor Sue McKemmish (Monash University), Associate Professor Philip Mendes (Monash University), Professor Keir Reeves (Federation University Australia), and Dr Jane Bone (Monash University), with postdoctoral fellow Dr Gregory Rolan and research fellow Frank Golding OAM. Associate Professor Joanne Evans is also the recipient of ARC Future Fellowship FT140100073 Connecting the Disconnected: Co-Designing Inclusive Archival and Recordkeeping Systems. We acknowledge the contributions of all those involved in the Setting the Record Straight for the Rights on the Child Initiative (CLAN, Care Leavers Australasia Network; Child Migrants Trust, Connecting Home; CREATE Foundation, Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University; Collaborative Research Centre for Australian History, Federation University Australia and eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne), and particularly those at the May 2017 Summit (major funding from the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, additional contributions from University of Melbourne, Federation University Australia, and the Australian Society of Archivists/Council of Australian Archives and Records Authority) to the development of the National Framework for Childhood Out-of-Home Care Recordkeeping. In its seed iteration, funded by the Faculty of IT at Monash University, the Imagined Archives project research fellow, Dr Antonina Lewis, has worked closely with two young women in their twenties, and less intensively with a number of other young people and with a community of later-life Care leavers. The project has benefited from the emotional, intellectual, professional, and artistic generosity of many who have shared their time and knowledge, on or off the record. These include individuals associated with: CLAN, Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Projects, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, Blak Dot Gallery, Find and Connect web resource, and cohealth Arts Generator. Kirsten Thorpe is a PhD candidate within the IT Faculty at Monash University. Her research focuses on Indigenous Archiving and Cultural Safety and examines the role of decolonization and self-determination in libraries and archives. Kirsten’s PhD is funded by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Publisher's Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
McKemmish, S., Bone, J., Evans, J. et al. Decolonizing recordkeeping and archival praxis in childhood out-of-home Care and indigenous archival collections. Arch Sci 20, 21–49 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09321-z
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09321-z