Do You, Don't You, Want my Trauma?: Some Issues Facing Post-Disaster Memory Projects (2015)

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The last few years have seen the emergence of a range of Digital Humanities projects concerned with archiving material related to traumatic events and disasters. The 9/11 Digital Archive, The Hurricane Memory Bank and the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive are a few such projects committed to collecting, curating and making available disaster-related images, stories and media for the purposes of commemoration, teaching and research. In this paper Paul Millar 1. examines the value of such projects in preserving post-disaster memories, 2. explores some differences between passive and active digital memory projects, and 3. asks whether even the most determinedly open and inclusive digital memory project can preserve its values when issues of race, class, gender, politics and economics impact upon its activities.
ANZSRC Fields of Research
21 - History and Archaeology::2102 - Curatorial and Related Studies::210201 - Archival, Repository and Related Studies21 - History and Archaeology::2102 - Curatorial and Related Studies::210202 - Heritage and Cultural Conservation
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