TY - JOUR
T1 - Archive-Work
T2 - Genealogies of Loyalty in a Macedono-Bulgarian Colony
AU - Brown, Keith
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2008/8
Y1 - 2008/8
N2 - Through close study of a 1930s legal dispute within a Macedono-Bulgarian church congregation in Steelton, Pennsylvania, this article explores the importance of "archive-work" as a particular form of political activism. Archive-work is here presented as conscious and willful attempts by historical agents to imbue a particular narrative, or set of claims, with the authority of "official record." Such archive-work is regularly undertaken by nationalizing states: this analysis, though, focuses on the small-scale efforts by a determined group of individuals to disrupt a state-sponsored narrative and enlist the authority of Pennsylvania law to legitimize their alternative version of the past.
AB - Through close study of a 1930s legal dispute within a Macedono-Bulgarian church congregation in Steelton, Pennsylvania, this article explores the importance of "archive-work" as a particular form of political activism. Archive-work is here presented as conscious and willful attempts by historical agents to imbue a particular narrative, or set of claims, with the authority of "official record." Such archive-work is regularly undertaken by nationalizing states: this analysis, though, focuses on the small-scale efforts by a determined group of individuals to disrupt a state-sponsored narrative and enlist the authority of Pennsylvania law to legitimize their alternative version of the past.
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U2 - 10.2979/his.2008.20.2.60
DO - 10.2979/his.2008.20.2.60
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85184574774
SN - 0935-560X
VL - 20
SP - 60
EP - 83
JO - History and Memory
JF - History and Memory
IS - 2
ER -