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Autor/in | Poudyal, Bibhushana |
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Titel | The "Nature" of Ethics While (Digitally) Archiving the Other |
Quelle | In: Across the Disciplines, 18 (2021) 1-2, S.177-190 (14 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1554-8244 |
Schlagwörter | Ethics; Archives; Electronic Libraries; Western Civilization; Asian Culture; Foreign Countries; Photography; Ceremonies; Power Structure; Dialogs (Language); Nepal; United Kingdom (Cambridge) |
Abstract | The article begins with an introduction to my digital archival project, the deconstructive approach in it, and the questions that are guiding both the project and the article. Then, I present the ethical dilemmas I encountered after I decided to build a digital archive. I connect these dilemmas with the--witting or otherwise--orientalist pattern behind two of the West-based digital archival projects about Nepal and South Asia. I also introduce the metaphor of pharmakon and argue for the need to interrogate archival performances through the questions of ethics. Through the discussion of my project, I attempt to offer, not a manifesto on ethical digital archives, but a possibility of making digital archives hospitable to the Other by building a dialectical relationship with the communities. My project, Rethinking South Asia from the Borderlands via Critical Digital A(na)rchiving, is a Nepali researcher's humble, stubborn, and sincere effort/experiment of building a digital archive by bringing together community-praxis and deconstructive approaches. I aim to see if a dialogic room in digital archives can be built for and with the Other. I use the discussion of my project to raise some of the hardest questions and to offer a glimpse at the "nature" of ethics that archivists must unconditionally pursue while (digitally) archiving the Other. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |