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Archival Experiments, Notes and (Dis)orientations

There has been substantial work in recent years, from different contexts and traditions, on the use of archives. The possibilities and limitations of the archive, as theoretical concept as well as material site, are picked up widely by queer, feminist and decolonial scholars. The past decade has seen an increase in publications, special issues, events and exhibitions grappling with the idea of the archive and its role in feminist, queer and diasporic contexts. Recent significant special issues include Radical History Review (2014), which questions what it means to ‘queer’ the archive; Australian Feminist Studies (2017), exploring the role of archives in new modes of feminist research; and a special issue on decolonial archival praxis in Archival Science (2017). Feminist Review has also published a number of articles on archives and archival practice, from pieces that rethink the role of the archive in feminist visual art (Zapperi, 2013) or the role of archives in the articulation of black diaspora feminist identity and consciousness (Burin and Sowinski, 2014; Swaby, 2014), to a manifesto for feminist archiving that underlines alternative methods for reading the archive (Digital Women’s Archive North, 2017). The Feminist Review Collective also offers a three-month fellowship for early career scholars to critically engage with the Feminist Review archive. These interventions demonstrate the continued engagement with the archive as a complex, lively and material site.