“These radical transformations all hold in common an identification of the archive as an active site of both power and resistance (Jimerson 2009) and that description plays a significant role in ‘the construction of meanings and the exercise of power’ (Duff and Harris 2002, 264).”
Kathy Carbone, et. al. 2014. “Mobilizing Records: Re-framing Archival Description to Support Human Rights.” Arch Sci 14, 409.
References:
Randall C. Jimerson. 2009. Archives Power: memory, accountability, and social justice. Chicago: Society of American Archivists.
Wendy M. Duff, and Verne Harris. 2002. “Stories and Names: Archival Description as Narrating Records and Constructing Meanings.” Archival Science 2(3), 263–285.