The Beginning of an Idea about an End: On Digital, Diasporic, Syrian Archives
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The Beginning of an Idea about an End : On Digital, Diasporic, Syrian Archives. / Tarnowski, Jan Stefan.
In: Visual Anthropology, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2024, p. 35-55.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Beginning of an Idea about an End
T2 - On Digital, Diasporic, Syrian Archives
AU - Tarnowski, Jan Stefan
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two Syrian organizations, the Syrian Archive and Bidayyat, both founded in exile but operating at different ends of the archival scale, this article theorizes the idea of an archive as a horizon of expectation that orients activists toward future justice in the face of defeat. While Bidayyat primarily associates the power of the archive with the judgment of history and the Syrian Archive with legal judgment, their underlying idea of an archive gives activists a sense of an ending, even when justice proves elusive.
AB - Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two Syrian organizations, the Syrian Archive and Bidayyat, both founded in exile but operating at different ends of the archival scale, this article theorizes the idea of an archive as a horizon of expectation that orients activists toward future justice in the face of defeat. While Bidayyat primarily associates the power of the archive with the judgment of history and the Syrian Archive with legal judgment, their underlying idea of an archive gives activists a sense of an ending, even when justice proves elusive.
U2 - 10.1080/08949468.2023.2285217
DO - 10.1080/08949468.2023.2285217
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 35
EP - 55
JO - Visual Anthropology
JF - Visual Anthropology
SN - 0894-9468
IS - 1
ER -
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