Aims and scope

Archival Science promotes the development of archival science as an autonomous scientific discipline. The journal covers all aspects of archival science theory, methodology, and practice. Moreover, it investigates different cultural approaches to creation, management and provision of access to archives, records, and data. It also seeks to promote the exchange and comparison of concepts, views and attitudes related to recordkeeping issues around the world.

Archival Science's approach is integrated, interdisciplinary, and intercultural. Its scope encompasses the entire field of recorded process-related information, analyzed in terms of form, structure, and context. To meet its objectives, the journal draws from scientific disciplines that deal with the function of records and the way they are created, preserved, and retrieved; the context in which information is generated, managed, and used; and the social and cultural environment of records creation at different times and places.

    Covers all aspects of archival science theory, methodology, and practice
    Investigates different cultural approaches to creation, management and provision of access to archives, records, and data
    Promotes the exchange and comparison of concepts, views, and attitudes related to recordkeeping issues around the world
    Addresses the entire field of recorded process-related information, analyzed in terms of form, structure, and context

Special Issue on Archives of resilience: locating and interpreting post-Ottoman minority sources
Submission Date: 2024-09-30

Archives of resilience, aims to be a special issue at once interdisciplinary and interprofessional, rallying both archivists and historians to reflect on the archival challenges pertaining to the study of populations that did not quite fit the homogenizing project of the post-Ottoman nation-state. To the extent that the nation-state became the dominant political unit worldwide, the questions raised in this special issue, and the challenges, which the latter identifies, are globally relevant.

The questions that will be addressed in this special issue include, among other potential themes:

- Accessibility and archival policy of private and public archives

- Strategies against the challenge of post-dispersal policies and politics

- Reading strategies – ethnographic vs extractive – in apprehending the lives of minorities in written records: against or along the archival grain

- The congruence and incongruence between the written records and oral testimonies emanating from minorities and minority institutions

- Apprehending minorities in third-party repositories (League of Nations, Red Cross, Red Crescent, Permanent Mandates Commission, etc.), namely outside of the dual relationship between states and minorities

- Linguistic challenges in the exploitation of minority-related archives

- Digitization of minority-related archives as a way of centralization and preservation of memory

- Ritualized and recurrent artistic manifestations as alternative archives for the study of post-Ottoman minorities

Abstracts (500-1000 words) and a short bio (200 words) should be emailed to the guest editors Angelos Dalachanis (angelos.dalachanis@cnrs.fr) and Alexis Rappas (arappas@ku.edu.tr) by January 31, 2024. The editors will notify the authors whether their abstract is accepted or rejected by February 15, 2024. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will have to submit their anonymized manuscript for peer review by June 30, 2024.