Grassroots Archives: Memory, Dictatorship, and the City.
In recent years, coalitions of activists, artists, scholars, and community members have created archives composed of material related to social movements past and present with increasing frequency. These grassroots archives raise questions about the potential role of archives as generative spaces fo...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 129; no. 2; pp. 669 - 681 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2024
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