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The article presents a roundtable on the cultural legacy of the book "Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class," by Eric W. Lott in celebration of the book's 30th anniversary. Topics discussed include the importance of the book in understanding the years leading up to the American Civil War, the impact of the book within academia across disciplines, and the archival research done by Lott for this book.

Instituted in 1749, the British Lying-In Hospital served as a charity hospital for married pregnant women. Existing analysis of lying-in hospitals in Britain emphasizes the history of midwifery. This project approaches the subject from a different angle, centering the patients instead of the medical staff. The project focuses on an account book from the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library that lists the hospital’s income and expenses from 1767 to 1782. Analysis of this archival source reveals the hospital’s regulatory power over the poor. This regulation enforced the distinction between deserving and undeserving poor inside and outside the hospital walls.

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, this paper investigates the response of a Chinese voluntary association in New Zealand to demographic changes in the national Chinese community since the 1990s. The Chinese Community Association developed from the closed-off and inward-facing Chinese community of New Zealand – the "old Chinese" whose ancestors arrived from rural Cantonese-speaking counties in Guangdong in the 1860s. Immigration law changes in 1989 brought new communities speaking different languages, with different political, social and economic backgrounds into New Zealand, creating new diversification to what it means to be a Chinese New Zealander. This paper investigates how this "old Chinese" association has adapted to "new" Chinese groups. We argue that a unique "rooted cosmopolitanism" has developed in this association, where local practices and resources have enabled it to manage potential tensions and growing pains of serving diverse groups in the current multi-ethnic context of New Zealand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines German naturalization policies through an analysis of naturalization guidelines from 1921 to 2000 supplemented by archival research into their implementation. The substantive focus, first of all, is on the extent to which naturalization in Germany has become more or less discriminatory in ethnic and economic terms as well as on how one aspect of gender discrimination relating to the naturalization of spouses intersects with ethnicity. Second, is citizenship a privilege bestowed by the state solely at the state's discretion and in accordance with state interests or is there a right to citizenship? The paper shows that negative ethnic discrimination, at least in its explicit varieties, has largely disappeared, and economic self-sufficiency has always been a prerequisite for naturalization, but the most recent statutory changes limit exceptions to this requirement. For executive discretion, we see a broad shift over time toward limiting state discretion with exercises of administrative discretion becoming fully reviewable by courts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the Scandinavian countries' contributions to the United Nations' 1968 International Year for Human Rights (IYHR) based on archival research in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. It traces how the three countries launched national campaigns to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and participated in the International Human Rights Conference in Tehran. This engagement with the IYHR occurred at a time when the Scandinavian countries were elevating human rights concerns in their diplomacy as part of a new foreign policy activism. The article demonstrates that the commemoration campaigns spawned numerous activities to raise awareness of human rights issues and spurred reflection on the state of human rights at home and abroad. At the Tehran conference, the Scandinavian countries failed to strengthen international protection of human rights as the concerns of Global South countries dominated the agenda. The analysis confirms two general aspects of the Scandinavian approach to human rights: their emphasis on mutual coordination and their preference for robust civil society involvement. The article concludes that the comprehensive national commemoration campaigns facilitated broad civil society engagement with human rights, but that the IYHR did not transform Scandinavian human rights policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fake news has long been used in propaganda, but the proliferation of digital media reinvigorated it. In Zimbabwe, fake news peaks during elections and on the eve of international summits the country's leadership will be attending. The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A), which re-branded to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), deploy fake news against each other. These two are the main contestants for power, and they dominate Parliament and Senate. ZANU-PF has the majority in the legislature whilst the opposition CCC dominates Urban Councils. They are permanently engaged in a battle for hegemony. Informed by the three dimensions of fake news as a genre, a label and dramaturgia, the paper interrogates how, when, where and why ZANU-PF and MDC-A deployed fake news in the post-Mugabe era. Data were gathered through archival research and virtual ethnography, and the findings show that both parties used the three dimensions of fake news in intra-party and inter-party struggles, and the battle to influence regional and global public opinion. Fake news was used to confuse the public and discredit the opponent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Finding inspiration from recent calls to consider the body, affect, movement, and otherwise as/in archives, this article focuses on events that took place with young archivists engaged in the act of drawing at a community center. These data-stories are put in conversation with spatial theory, children's geographies, and feminist new materialisms to make sense of child-created archives and to offer researchers a way to (un)learn archival methods by acknowledging artifacts, as not only reflecting the community of makers but also reflecting the vibrancy of materials and space as an archival reciprocity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main premise of this article is that research conducted on site in archival reading rooms is influenced by the architecture of an archive and the interior design of its reading room. A subjective account of the study of the publication, editorial, and material histories of early-American literature at the American Philosophical Society and the Library Company in Philadelphia illustrates how the engagement with books in an archive is marked by an arrest of time. An empty sense of history in reading rooms as well as ritualized procedures of entry into library spaces and a supervised reading experience, in addition to a calming environment, inform this temporal suspension. A comparable sense of arrest marks the archival document itself, which is shielded from accumulating marks or additions that would bear evidence of its history after it entered the archive. A similar bracketing of time informs the archive as an institution, which provides a nation with a moment of origin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mobile Archive project explores how archival research has adapted to the digital age. This is an ongoing, flexible inquiry into the status of the archive in Colonial and Early American Studies for our present day. In 2021, scholars from the US, Mexico, and Germany started the research project to examine how the shift from physical to digital archives has influenced knowledge organization, access, and historical narratives. Key discussions include the mobility of knowledge, the role of colonial legacies in archival practice, and the complexities of digitization. In this Anglia research cluster, we want to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars, archivists, and university teachers. Here, we rethink archives as dynamic spaces that challenge traditional boundaries and promote more inclusive, decolonized scholarship. This introduction lays out the themes explored in this research cluster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces, defines and analyzes the concept of digital provenance. I begin by comparing provenance, data provenance and digital provenance, focusing on research literature in archival studies, digital preservation and media archeology. The remainder of the article is divided into two parts, first examining three dimensions of digital provenance and then considering how digital provenance might be of use in the four main archival functions. An understanding of digital provenance is necessary for archivists to process born digital records; but more than this, it is necessary for archivists and archival users to understand the context and content of born digital records. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The internationalization brought about by online finding aids and the United States' expanding diverse population necessitates a renewed focus on representation and accessibility in archival research. The accessibility of archival resources depends on the language in which the content is offered to the public. Throughout the United States, the Spanish-speaking population continues to grow. Employees in the University of North Texas Special Collections department obtained grant funding to translate finding aids and digital exhibits into Spanish, with an emphasis on finding a translation solution that offered a balance between cost and quality (i.e., readability and accuracy). This article discusses possible options for translation, including translation vendors, Office 365, and DeepL; findings of the project, with specifics about the cost-effectiveness and quality of each option; and general advice to other institutions interested in undertaking translation projects, regardless of available resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the narratives of modernization in Iran and Turkey from the 1920s to the 1940s by examining the pro-state Iranian Ettelaat and Koushesh newspapers and the Turkish Cumhuriyet and Ulus papers. The article covers approximately a total of 1000 issues of these newspapers and conducts novel archival research and thematic analyses to investigate the economic, sociocultural, and political/legal aspects of modernization and how these were spearheaded by the political elites of the time. The article is informed by Modernization and Selectorate theories and assesses the relevance and contribution of the Iranian and Turkish cases to these theories. To this end, the article underlines the importance of historical legacies in both countries and how these can create path-dependent stories of modernization and democratization in the respective nations as of today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted the global development of contact tracing systems, revealing the adaptability of digital platforms for urban infrastructure. This study, as part of a broader investigation into the implementation of a South Korean contact tracing system during the pandemic, employs an archival research method to examine how the government strategically developed the infrastructure by using the most popular commercial apps in the country. The article identifies three critical junctures of technological mediation in this process—the sites of data reproduction, intimate interaction, and subjectivity transition—elucidating how these junctures interlinked and transformed the material capacities of the involved components, to expedite data reproduction and realignment, a process through which a new digital infrastructure could be configured. The examination of this infrastructuring process highlights the materiality of digital infrastructure as existing through and for data reproduction. This article proposes that this perspective can provide a useful lens to examine evolving forms of infrastructuralization and critique their political implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Post-Mao reforms ranging from de-collectivization to the abolition of agricultural taxes have eroded the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) control over the rural periphery. However, with an agenda to strengthen the CCP's all-around control over the economy and society, the Xi Jinping era saw a reversal of the long-term trend. We argue that Xi's high-profile anti-poverty campaign from 2015 to 2020 consisted of massive Party building attempts and served as an important strategy for the Party to repenetrate the rural periphery. Based on in-depth fieldwork, archival research, and secondary information sources, we show that by injecting human and financial resources into poverty regions, the CCP reinvigorated its previously underfunded and demoralized grassroots organs, expanded rural Party member recruitment, and enhanced the Party's intervention in village affairs. Therefore, despite its seemingly economic nature, Xi's anti-poverty campaign may lead to the long-lasting effect of Party power consolidation in the countryside. This finding suggests that authoritarian regimes can use campaigns with appealing policy goals to advance broader political agendas and enhance authoritarian resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper considers how knowledge has been organized about museum objects and belongings at the Museum of Anthropology, in what is now known as British Columbia, and proposes the concept of historical or provenance warrant to understand how cataloguing decisions were made and are limited by current museum systems. Design/methodology/approach: Through interviews and archival research, we trace how cataloguing was done at the museum through time and some of the challenges imposed by historical documentation systems. Findings: Reading from the first attempts at standardizing object nomenclatures in the journals of private collectors to the contemporary practices associated with object documentation in the digital age, we posit that historic or provenance warrant is crafted through donor attribution or association, object naming, the concept of geo-cultural location and the imposition of unique identifiers, numbers and direct labels that physically mark belongings. Originality/value: The ultimate goal and contribution of this research is to understand and describe the systems that structure and organize knowledge, in an effort to repair the history and terminologies moving forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Wonder exalts its object. Can it also degrade? This question was a central interpretive tension guiding the author's archival research and analysis when he set out to write his first book almost 30 years ago about a 19th-century woman who was simultaneously degraded—for her race her disability her old age and her enslavement—and lionized for the stories she had to tell and for the symbolism of her very existence. The author reflects on how his fascination with the story he was recovering in the archives reflected his "positionality" or the ways in which his social identity shaped his understanding. A reading of a recent collection of poems by Bettina Judd reimagining the same story helped clarify both what his own standpoint allowed him to see and what he missed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, the global spread of Japanese cuisine has been viewed as a result of twentieth-century Japanese emigration. This view, although fitting for many countries, is not helpful for analyzing the case of Iceland with its small Japanese community. Hence, the paper takes special interest in a recent study by James Farrer et al. (2019), who challenge the usual assumptions that Japan is the epicenter for spreading Japanese cuisine, and that key actors are Japanese. As will be demonstrated, not only migration, but also short-term movement of people is highly relevant to the Icelandic experience. Hence, the paper also pays attention to other types of mobilities, namely the "corporeal travel of people" and "the physical movement of objects" as defined by John Urry (2007). The study is mostly based on archival research and content analysis. The paper demonstrates, first, how Icelanders, rather than Japanese and other Asians, have played a leading role when it comes to introducing and spreading Japanese cuisine in Iceland, and second, how emphasis on Japanese authenticity has changed over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The labor exchange agreements signed between Turkey and several European countries in the 1960s resulted in a large population move to Europe. While the majority of workers were men, the share of women had increased over the years. Initially overlooked, women's transborder mobility came under public scrutiny from the mid-1960s onwards. Migration scholarship has demonstrated that sending states may impose restrictive policies on women's transborder mobility to regulate their sexuality. However, this research often relies on a binary model (travel bans/no bans) where attention is paid mostly to cases in the former group. Under the rubric of moral panic, this paper offers an analytical framework to explore how control over women's sexuality can be maintained in contexts where no travel bans are adopted. Drawing on archival research, this study reveals that women's mobility triggered a moral panic in Turkey, prompting various political demands for prohibitive policies, which were met with state reluctance. Still, the disciplinary control over women's sexuality was maintained through a transnational network of ethno-national kin, spontaneous and independent of any state authority. While it was not designed to fill any power vacuum, the network effectively exercised disciplinary control over numerous Turkish women, employing discursive and punitive practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change poses a severe risk for economic growth. The negative effects of climate change are, however, variegated depending on the region and the type of dominant industries fuelling their economies. Winter tourism in the Alps presents a case of a regionally specific and climate-vulnerable growth driver. Despite increasing climate-related physical risks to winter tourism such as snow scarcity, investments into infrastructure expansion continue. This raises the question of why a potentially unviable growth strategy is actively maintained considering the inevitable climate change scenario. Through semi-structured interviews, field work and archival research, this paper explores how the winter-touristic growth coalition responds to climate change. The findings show that key actors discursively decouple climate change from their growth strategies, which allows them to maintain the winter-touristic growth driver. 'There is no alternative' narratives and sustainability frameworks characterise the growth coalition´s response to the challenge of climate change. This paper makes an important contribution by exploring winter tourism as regional growth driver that contributes to a national export-oriented growth model. It thereby provides a unique perspective on regional underpinnings of growth models and the politics perpetuating growth model stasis under vulnerable climate conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Willowbrook Hepatitis Study is one of the best-known examples of unethical medical research, but the research has always had defenders. One of the more intriguing defenses continually used was that critics did not know the researchers on the study and, therefore, could not assess their ethics. This essay traces the appeal to the researchers' characters across published research and archival sources from the 1960s through today. These appeals reflect the observation as old as Aristotle that one of the most potent modes of persuasion is ethos or character. The specific types of character in these appeals develop out of the paternalistic nature of clinical and research practice in the mid-twentieth century. If the individual physician is the locus of medical judgment, then the physician's character becomes a key concern for bioethics. These appeals still appear and have implications for bioethics in the present day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Britain is often depicted as having been a laggard in management education before the late creation of two graduate business schools in London and Manchester in the mid-1960s triggered the emergence of a new academic sector. According to the dominant narrative, the anachronistic views of Britain's industrial leaders and disdain of its universities for practical learning constrained developments in the field. Through the lens of elite theory, we offer a reinterpretation of the formation of Britain's first business schools informed by archival research, suggesting that they arose from an evolutionary process rather than a crucible event. The story of the creation of Britain's first business schools has never been told from the perspective of elite agency. Our study reveals the emergent managerial elite of the post-war era growing into something altogether more powerful. Our main contribution to theory is to demonstrate that, while expanding management education ostensibly contravened elite interests, elite interaction in the field of power at a time of national urgency amplified elite influence, prefiguring their role as "influence elites" today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Balkans, due to its geographical location, has hosted various empires, allowing the culinary culture in the region to diversify and enrich through interactions with different cultures. Balkan culinary culture has been shaped by factors such as history, geography, and ethnic diversity. Each country has its own unique flavors and traditions. The main objective of this study is to examine the menu contents of food and beverage establishments classified as "Balkan Restaurant" in Istanbul and analyze online customer reviews on Google. The study is designed as qualitative research, employing archival research, document scanning, and content analysis techniques as qualitative research methods. Establishments with inaccessible menu content were accessed through their official websites or social media accounts. In this context, 13 Balkan restaurants operating between 2010-2024 were subjected to a detailed evaluation, and a total of 2689 customer reviews were analyzed using content analysis methods. The content from Google reviews was obtained through a Python-based application. The obtained data was analyzed and visualized using the Microsoft Power BI program. According to results, restaurant menus were assessed under three primary categories: "delicious," "tasteless," and "expensive." Prominent and flavorful dishes like "Pljeskavica, Cevapcici, and Bosnian Dumplings" were highlighted in Balkan restaurants. This suggests that Balkan restaurants typically maintain their cultural heritage, keeping their menu offerings consistent without major alterations, thus preserving traditional elements throughout the years. It has been concluded that businesses not providing services in this manner are generally perceived by customers as either tasteless or expensive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines the biographical process, particularly in relation to writers like Tom Stoppard and Virginia Woolf, highlighting the challenges and rewards of uncovering personal and professional details through archives. Topics discussed include the importance of thorough archival research, the necessity of recognizing gaps in existing records, and the impact of lateral thinking when seeking new insights or overlooked materials in biographical work.

This paper focuses on the reconstruction of the Ottoman fleet following the naval defeat at Lepanto (1571). It examines the event from the perspective of management studies. Drawing on extensive archival research, we reconstruct the Ottoman Empire's decision-making processes, looking at the main organisational conditions that made this remarkable feat possible. This allows us to make a preliminary comparison with the management of the Venice Arsenal in the same period, as an example of an early form of modern management. To what extent this extraordinary effort was—at the same time—a consequence and a driver of a different pattern of organising economic activities on two sides of Mediterranean Sea? Differences between the two contexts are discussed, while addressing the importance of shipbuilding in the development of early forms of management and the invention of the factory system in preindustrial, state run manufacturing, with particular reference to shipyards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article draws upon my engagement with the archive of Australian celebrity feminist Germaine Greer to reflect upon the use of archival methodologies in feminist celebrity studies, especially given that the archive itself is heavily implicated in processes of celebrification. The acquisition of this extensive archive by the University of Melbourne enables a mapping of the wider cultural reverberations of Greer's celebrity feminist persona, as well as her own pronounced role in its strategic cultivation – including in and through the archive. As I argue, the Greer archive is part of the renown-building labour in which all living celebrities engage – as well as being evidence of it. That is, the archive not only provides insights into Greer's fame and the affective investments of her fans, it is a form of renown maintenance and extension in and of itself, which can be figured as a feminist practice consistent with Greer's own recuperative feminist scholarship. Placing archival studies and celebrity studies in dialogue, I consider Greer's own curatorial practices and how they seek to shape the way the archive is consumed, the uses to which it is being put, and the kind of 'Greers' it seeks (not necessarily with success) to render visible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the authenticity of heritage hotels in popular tourist destinations. Using the Greek island of Santorini as a case study, the following three (3) factors, which have not been systematically studied so far, are examined and appear to have a significant impact on authenticity in the conversion of a heritage architectural building into a heritage hotel: (a) its structural characteristics, (b) the influence of the star classification system and (c) the extent to which each business promotes authenticity elements and heritage identity. For the purposes of this study, a threefold methodological approach was conducted, which includes archival research in the registry of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels for all the heritage hotels in Santorini (69 units), research in the accounting data of the island's heritage hotels certified with the national star ranking system for their services and amenities and research analysis of the information regarding the promotion of the heritage hotels through their official websites. Additionally, a cartographic representation of the locations of these hotels was created and their positioning was compared to the boundaries of traditional or non-traditional settlements. The results validated the basic finding of the literature review, that the authenticity of a heritage hotel is a construction under constant negotiation, influenced by a multitude of factors. The conversion of a historic building into a heritage hotel is a multidimensional process that requires a delicate balance between preserving cultural value and adapting to the needs of modern tourism, as well as a continuous evaluation and review of the policies in place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThe paper explores news photographs from New Zealand between 1900 and 1932 and unpacks the happenings at agricultural and pastoral events. It utilizes an archival research strategy to find the news coverage of such events that is informed by an animalcentric philosophy. As such, it engages with critical posthumanist and poststructuralist thought. This allows the presence of nonhuman animals as sentient beings to be recognized and challenges previous approaches of scholarship. Thus, the paper writes farmed nonhuman animals into the history of agricultural and pastoral events. In illustrating what occurred at these events, the paper illuminates the anthropocentric bias and speciesism-grounded principles embedded in human attitudes toward farmed nonhuman animals. Humans treat fellow sentient beings unfairly and unjustly, which is problematic when nonhuman animal sentience provides moral worth. This study contributes to studies in leisure’s ‘animal turn’ by focusing on the entanglements of human and farmed nonhuman animals in events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork and collected oral histories in 2019 in the Lofoten islands, as well as on archival research. I investigate the complex creation of kinship networks between humans and skrei in the Lofoten islands. I argue that the constant struggle to survive for both fish and fishermen embedded in larger capitalist ecologies of exploitation creates a symbolic shared substance between fish and fishermen, which, despite the often-unequal antagonistic nature of their relationships, allows us to rethink of definitions of kinship between humans and nonhuman others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the mid-1970s the group Laboratory of Presentation Techniques (LPT) was active at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. The artists conducted experiments and formal searches, exploring the potential of film, performance, and a new medium: video. LPT was the first in Silesia, the second in Poland, and one of the first artistic groups in Europe dealing with video art. Looking at the artistic path of Grzegorz G. Zgraja, the last of the artists, as well as Jadwiga and Jacek Singer's works, the paper analyzes the most pivotal artistic achievements of the group. Based on the interviews and archival research, the author reconstructs LPT's artistic contribution to European media art and the reasons these pioneers of media art were forgotten. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Third party ceasefire monitors routinely gather and report information on conflict events. Although ceasefire monitoring is a common conflict response intervention generally correlated with ceasefire durability, how its routine practices contribute to ceasefire compliance and noncompliance is little understood. This article asks how reporting, monitors' most common practice, affects conflict opponents. Based on the experiences of more than 100 monitors, as well as archival research, I develop theory for how ceasefire monitors' reporting constructs opportunities for conflict actors to demonstrate both compliance and noncompliance, and show evidence for this in cases from Kosovo and South Sudan. That monitoring can produce ceasefire noncompliance challenges existing understandings of monitoring as generally contributing to ceasefire durability. The implication is that even credible monitoring and accurate reporting may have inadvertent consequences on conflict trajectories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the allure of 'European digital sovereignty' as an official European Union (EU) strategic objective, it remains unclear whether this discourse has driven concrete changes to EU external action policies, particularly those leveraging cyber instruments. This question is explored vis-à-vis three policies which have enabled the EU to pursue its digital sovereignty objectives in practice: the Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox, external capacity building (CCB) assistance initiatives, and the 5G Toolbox. Drawing upon extensive archival research and elite interviews, the paper finds that, while European digital sovereignty discourse influenced comprehensive changes for the 5G Toolbox process, it failed to drive policy changes to the Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox and external CCB assistance initiatives. To explore this variation, the paper considers institutional and ideational factors particular to EU external action over the 2017–2022 period. Overall, the study contributes both to contemporary debates about European digital sovereignty and its relationship to EU cyber instruments and longstanding work on EU foreign policymaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article constitutes an addition to the scant literature on military boredom. It offers a close reading of field reports written by Swedish military chaplains during the Second World War and seeks to explore the lived experience of waiting for war. It analyses how the military inactivity of Swedish soldiers were depicted and how it was thought to impact morale and motivation. This article showcases how military boredom may be studied through archival research and how the study of boredom as a military phenomenon benefits from an exploration of various kinds of experiences, on as well as (far) off the battlefield. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article evaluates the configuration of musical practices in Mozambique's capital city, Maputo, during the 'socialist single-party period' (1975–1994), focusing on changes in dancing venues and entertainment shows organized by companies like Produções 1001, Delta Produções, and the state-owned Empresa Moçambicana de Entretenimento (EME), which aimed to centralize all aspects related to música ligeira (literally 'light music') in the country. Through fieldwork interviews with politicians, producers, musicians, and archival research, this article elucidates the significance of musical activity and the entertainment industry in shaping the 'sonorous construction' of the 'new Mozambican man', as envisioned by FRELIMO. It explores numerous topics, including the initial prohibition of many venues in the early years of independence and the subsequent informal reversal of such decisions by 1994. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Good record keeping practice and research data management underlie responsible research conduct and promote reproducibility of research findings in the sciences. In many cases of research misconduct, inadequate research data management frequently appear as an accompanying finding. Findings of disorganized or otherwise poor data archival or loss of research data are, on their own, not usually considered as indicative of research misconduct. Focusing on the availability of raw/primary data and the replicability of research based on these, we posit that most, if not all, instances of research data mismanagement (RDMM) could be considered a questionable research practice (QRP). Furthermore, instances of RDMM at their worst could indeed be viewed as acts of research misconduct. Here, we analyze with postulated scenarios the contexts and circumstances under which RDMM could be viewed as a significant misrepresentation of research (ie. falsification), or data fabrication. We further explore how RDMM might potentially be adjudicated as research misconduct based on intent and consequences. Defining how RDMM could constitute QRP or research misconduct would aid the formulation of relevant institutional research integrity policies to mitigate undesirable events stemming from RDMM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the personal and communal significance of archival research for Native people, particularly in relation to California Indian history. Topics include the gendered and racial dynamics of Native archives, how Native scholars engage with archives to reclaim and reinterpret their histories, and the power of Native voices in disrupting traditional archival narratives.

Milton Friedman is widely considered the intellectual father of the school choice movement. While Friedman deserves much credit, Father Virgil Blum stands out as an influential figure in the nascent school choice movement. Using archival research, this paper examines Blum's contributions to the movement. From his 1954 doctoral dissertation, which made the legal case for funding religious schools, to his 1958 book, Freedom of Choice in Education, and his decades-long career as a professor, Blum was a tireless advocate for educational freedom. While Friedman made the market argument, Blum made the legal, moral, and religious freedom arguments for school choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When King Charles I was beheaded in 1649 it incited a series of events in the Reformed city of Geneva. The Civil Wars and Regicide uncovered the political and religious tensions within Geneva during the English Civil Wars. In Geneva, two important bodies, the Small Council of civil magistrates and the Company of Pastors jockeyed for an appropriate response from their diverse members. Additionally, the leaders of Geneva had to respond to English and Continental rumours that they were to blame for England's woes. Utilizing archival research, this article examines the transnational implications of the English Civil Wars and it shows that the Genevans had far from a unified view of the Civil Wars. Ultimately, the primary fear for the leaders in Geneva was not necessarily the death of a king, but instead that they would be associated with the worst aspects of the Radical Reformation: Anabaptism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper retraces the history of Italy's first-generation rent control—a strict system of nominal rent freezes—from its adoption in 1915 to its final dismantling in 1978. It investigates the political and economic reasons why this policy was adopted, removed, intensified, or lightened at different times. In addition, this paper reports data on the evolution of rents in various Italian cities over the period considered, drawing them partly from published statistical sources and partly from archival research. In particular, it presents original data on controlled and uncontrolled rents in nineteen Italian cities between 1953 and 1975 (with gaps), taken from the Istat historical archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Illicit alcohol markets are widely viewed as exceptional phenomena. Partly in consequence, they are under-researched and have a low political profile in Britain. This article proceeds from a contrary understanding that illicit alcohol markets are actually persistent features of the history of modern Western societies. Based on original archival research, it examines how illicit alcohol markets in England and Wales changed but endured across the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914). It charts the decline of wholly illegal alcohol markets and the increasing prominence of hybridized enterprises which entwined legal and illegal activities. Importantly, the article proposes a significant new conceptualization of illicit alcohol markets as everyday crimes. It then considers the implications of this argument for criminological research and alcohol policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a youth participatory action research project in Tucker, Georgia, where high school students collaborated with local historians and institutions to create a living historical archive of their community. Topics include the role of youth in archival research, the demographic evolution of Tucker, and the methodologies used in the project, such as naturalistic exploration and community engagement to capture diverse historical narratives.

This article investigates the problem of the tsetse fly and the trypanosomiasis disease it conveys as a transforming multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia from the late nineteenth century until 1959. Based on archival research, it analyses the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) as a moving target; not only a mobile and elusive insect but also a moving field of knowledge bringing multiple stakeholders into dialogue. It shows that tsetse control and wildlife conservation emerged together in colonial Zambia, in conflicting but also synergising ways, and that the association of large mammals to G. morsitans laid the ground for their classification as killable or preservable species. In the crossed influence of diverse regional colonial expertise, the article finds that the complex multispecies relations between the tsetse fly, the trypanosomes, wildlife, vegetation, humans and cattle, mediated and enacted by colonial experts and others, shaped institutions, policies and landscapes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The indigenous wild plants of Southern Africa are intertwined with human cultures, histories and livelihoods. By focusing on commercial cultivation of a wild plant, honeybush (Cyclopia spp.), an indigenous plant that is endemic to parts of South Africa, we discuss changing colonial relations of domination and alienation affecting its use by local communities. We draw from an interdisciplinary study of honeybush conducted in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa, which included archival research, life history interviews, participant observation and a review of honeybush cultivation science. Anna Tsing's notion of non-scalability and a multispecies critique of plant domestication guides our analysis of the changing relations and approaches to honeybush use. We show the impact these changes exert on human and human-non-human relations. We conclude that the persistence of scalable projects in the commercial use of honeybush sustains and reconfigures relations that strengthen the alienation of (certain) humans from nature. Our interdisciplinary research highlights how historical violence continues to be subsumed in plant domestication and commercialisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article documents the roundtable "Unfamiliar Archives," which took place as part of a two-day event to mark twenty years of Cultural Politics. Drawing from a range of "archives in the making" related to activists, artists, social theorists, and digital media practices, the participants reflect on the political, ethical, and epistemological provocations offered by their specific archival encounters. In particular, the participants reflect on the way their experiences of negotiating archives were inflected by their own initial unfamiliarity with the norms and protocols of archival research. To conceptualize these experiences, the participants orient their discussion around three terms that, they suggest, are generative for evoking the cultural politics of contemporary archives: estrangement, secrets, and loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is part of the reflection on the scientific careers of Polish women in the 20th c., focusing particularly on the era of the Polish People's Republic. It examines the intellectual biography, scientific achievements, and subsequent stages of academic advancement of Anna Rynkowska (1903-1984), a Łódź historian, archivist, and popularizer of Łódź history. Rynkowska began her career in the Second Polish Republic at the Łódź branch of the Polish Free University and later at the University of Łódź, in the department headed by Natalia Gąsiorowska-Grabowska. In the 1950s, she decided to join the archival service. On the one hand, the protagonist of this piece was perceived as someone who owed her social advancement to the new system. On the other hand, it is important to note that her advancement began already in the interwar period. It was then that, despite her workingclass background and lack of financial support from her family, she finished gymnasium and graduate studies, and pursued her doctorate. Her life mirrored broader national and regional histories, as well as the changes in Polish science. The article presents findings from archival research, as well as first-hand sources, published memoires, and studies in the history of historiography, science, and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]