Jamie A Lee
Jamie A. Lee is Associate Professor of Digital Culture, Information, and Society in the School of Information – Arizona’s iSchool – at the University of Arizona, where their research and teaching attend to critical archival theory and methodologies, multimodal media-making contexts, storytelling, and bodies. Lee is an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Early Career Grantee through which they are conducting research on community-based archives and archival description practices as well as a Faculty Fellow of the Haury Program for Environment and Social Justice.
Lee’s research monograph, Producing the Archival Body (Routledge, 2021), interrogates how power circulates and is deployed in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives influence and shape the production of knowledges and human subjectivities. Lee has published in Archivaria, Archival Science, the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies. They have also published book chapters related to archival studies, media studies, art & culture, and the history of American sexuality.
Lee directs the Arizona Queer Archives and the Digital Storytelling & Oral History Lab. They are an award-winning social justice documentary filmmaker, archivist, and scholar committed to decolonizing methodologies and asset-driven approaches to community participatory projects that are produced with communities in ways that will be relevant and beneficial.
www.thestorytellinglab.io
www.arizonaqueerarchives.com
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University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Lee’s research monograph, Producing the Archival Body (Routledge, 2021), interrogates how power circulates and is deployed in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives influence and shape the production of knowledges and human subjectivities. Lee has published in Archivaria, Archival Science, the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies. They have also published book chapters related to archival studies, media studies, art & culture, and the history of American sexuality.
Lee directs the Arizona Queer Archives and the Digital Storytelling & Oral History Lab. They are an award-winning social justice documentary filmmaker, archivist, and scholar committed to decolonizing methodologies and asset-driven approaches to community participatory projects that are produced with communities in ways that will be relevant and beneficial.
www.thestorytellinglab.io
www.arizonaqueerarchives.com
Address: School of Information
1103 E. 2nd Street
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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practices, this article critically defines and creatively unites both
‘radical’ and ‘hospitality’ as a tool for enacting generosity in
archives. Drawing on the complexities of Derrida’s Of Hospitality
(Cultural Memory in the Present) alongside feminist scholarship
and, what Cherríe Moraga calls ‘theories of the flesh’, it elucidates
the urgent work of imagining archives as spaces of radical
hospitality. The article uses embodied knowledges and
storytelling as an archival methodology to propose a set of
elements of radical hospitality and what it means and does in
and for the community archives. It attends to the creative
possibilities that acknowledging the relational complexities of the
archives, its collections, and its records as integral to establishing
socially just and generative spaces for its records creators and its
visitors. Radical hospitality becomes not only a possibility but also
the lively, animated, and joyous archival body and all of its parts.
practices, this article critically defines and creatively unites both
‘radical’ and ‘hospitality’ as a tool for enacting generosity in
archives. Drawing on the complexities of Derrida’s Of Hospitality
(Cultural Memory in the Present) alongside feminist scholarship
and, what Cherríe Moraga calls ‘theories of the flesh’, it elucidates
the urgent work of imagining archives as spaces of radical
hospitality. The article uses embodied knowledges and
storytelling as an archival methodology to propose a set of
elements of radical hospitality and what it means and does in
and for the community archives. It attends to the creative
possibilities that acknowledging the relational complexities of the
archives, its collections, and its records as integral to establishing
socially just and generative spaces for its records creators and its
visitors. Radical hospitality becomes not only a possibility but also
the lively, animated, and joyous archival body and all of its parts.
Bennett J (2010) Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium (CLAPS), University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2016.
PI - Tracey Osborne, Assistant Professor, School of Geography & Development, University of Arizona
Co-PI - Jamie A. Lee, Assistant Professor of Digital Culture, Information, and Society, School of Information, University of Arizona
Expanding on the author’s previous work, which engaged archival and queer theories to develop the Queer/ed Archival Methodology that intervenes in traditional archival practices, the book invites readers interested in humanistic inquiry to re-consider how archives are defined, understood, deployed, and accessed to produce subjects. Arguing that archives and bodies are mutually constitutive and developing a keen focus on the body and embodiment alongside archival theory, the author introduces new understandings of archival bodies. Contributing to recent disciplinary moves that offer a more transdisciplinary emphasis, Lee interrogates how power circulates and is deployed in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives influence and shape the production of knowledges and human subjectivities.
Producing the Archival Body will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of archival studies, library and information science, gender and women’s studies, anthropology, history, digital humanities, and media studies. It should also be of great interest to practitioners working in and with archives
Table of Contents
Introduction: Producing the Archival Body; Part I: Body Parts; 1. Archival Underpinnings; 2. Time; 3. Bodies; Part II: Bodies in Action; 4. Relational Reciprocity: Bodies As Archives / Archives As Bodies; 5. Bodies Producing Archives Producing Bodies: The Power of Storytelling; CODA: The Moving Body