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Archive as Prefigurative Space: Our Lives and Black Feminism in Canada

2019· article· en· W2945543909 on OpenAlex
Rachel Lobo

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueArchivaria (Association of Canadian Archivists) · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDigital and Traditional Archives Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNewspaperScholarshipFeminismIdeologyNarrativeRepresentation (politics)SociologyGender studiesResistance (ecology)Media studiesHistoryPolitical sciencePoliticsArtLawLiterature
DOInot available

Abstract

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This article introduces readers to the publication archive of Our Lives: Canada’s First Black Women’s Newspaper , founded by the Black Women’s Collective in 1986 and housed within the digital collection of the Rise Up! Feminist Archive. By situating the publication Our Lives as a potential site for recuperating histories of Black feminist resistance, this article demonstrates the role that community or activist archives play in the preservation of collective history: combating institutional modes of erasure and challenging dominant historical narratives. It argues that there is a need for further examination of the pedagogical and ideological elements of activist archives and their contribution to social movements and archival practice. Rather than considering activist archives as relatives of traditional archival institutions, it suggests that these projects need to be examined as sites of active learning in the tradition of community-embedded experiments. Building on recent scholarship, it investigates the discursive continuity between archives and historical narratives, and it reconceptualizes the term archives to include alternative sites and materials for the reconstructing the stories of historically marginalized groups. Finally, the article argues that archival projects need to adapt to new forms of archival representation and contexts, allowing for shifts in traditional methods and definitions. RESUME Cet article amene les lecteurs a la rencontre des archives liees a la publication Our Lives: Canada’s First Black Women’s Newspaper, fonde par le Black Women’s Collective en 1986 et qui est heberge dans la collection numerique de Rise Up! Feminist Archive. En positionnant la publication Our Lives comme lieu potentiel de reappropriation des histoires de la resistance feministe noire, cet article demontre le role que les archives communautaires ou militantes jouent dans la preservation de l’histoire collective: elles luttent contre les modalites institutionnelles d’effacement et defient les discours historiques dominants. Il soutient qu’un examen plus pousse des elements pedagogiques et ideologiques des archives militantes et leur contribution aux mouvements sociaux et aux pratiques en archivistique est necessaire. Plutot que de considerer les archives militantes comme apparentees aux institutions d’archives traditionnelles, il suggere que ces projets doivent etre etudies comme des lieux d’apprentissage actif dans la lignee des experiences ancrees dans la communaute. S’appuyant sur les etudes recentes, il scrute les continuites narratives entre les archives et les discours historiques et reconceptualise le terme « archives » afin d’y integrer des lieux et des materiaux alternatifs pour rebâtir les histoires de groupes historiquement marginalise. Enfin, l’article soutient que les projets archivistiques doivent s’adapter a de nouvelles formes de representations et de contextes archivistiques, permettant ainsi de modifier les methodes et les definitions traditionnelles.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.756
Threshold uncertainty score0.853

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.175
Teacher spread0.166 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it