Jeannette A Bastian is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Director of the Archives Management concentration at Simmons College, Boston. Andrew Flinn is a Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History. He is the Director of the Archives and Records Management MA programme in the Department of Information Studies at University College London and was the chair of the UK and Ireland Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Research (FARMER) between 2008 and 2011.

"This work encourages the practice of community archives in distinct contexts by centering an openness to adjustment of practices and priorities through relationships. A community archive is ever a model, never a mold."

• ContentsList of figures Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction - Jeannette A. Bastian and Andrew FlinnPART 1 ANALYTICAL ESSAYS1 Archival optimism, or, how to sustain a community archivesRebecka Taves Sheffield2 Affective bonds: what community archives can teach mainstream institutionsMichelle Caswell3 Community archives and the records continuumMichael PiggottPART 2 CASE STUDIES4 Tuku mana taonga, tuku mana tāngata – Archiving for indigenouslanguage and cultural revitalisation: cross sectoral case studies from Aotearoa, New ZealandClaire Hall and Honiana Love5 Self-documentation of Thai communities: reflective thoughts on the Western concept of community archivesKanokporn Nasomtrug Simionica6 Popular music, community archives and public history online cultural justice and the DIY approach to heritagePaul Long, Sarah Baker, Zelmarie Cantillon, Jez Collins and Raphaël Nowak7 Maison d’Haïti’s collaborative archives project: archiving a community of recordsDésirée Rochat, Kristen Young, Marjorie Villefranche and Aziz Choudry8 Indigenous archiving and wellbeing: surviving, thriving, reconcilingJoanne Evans, Shannon Faulkhead, Kirsten Thorpe, Karen Adams, Lauren Booker and Narissa Timbery9 Community engaged scholarship in archival studies: documenting housing displacement and gentrification in a Latino communityJanet Ceja Alcalá10 Post-x: community-based archiving in CroatiaAnne J. Gilliland and Tamara ŠtefanacIndex

Jeannette A Bastian is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Director of the Archives Management concentration at Simmons College, Boston. Andrew Flinn is a Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History. He is the Director of the Archives and Records Management MA programme in the Department of Information Studies at University College London and was the chair of the UK and Ireland Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Research (FARMER) between 2008 and 2011.

"This work encourages the practice of community archives in distinct contexts by centering an openness to adjustment of practices and priorities through relationships. A community archive is ever a model, never a mold."

• ContentsList of figures Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction - Jeannette A. Bastian and Andrew FlinnPART 1 ANALYTICAL ESSAYS1 Archival optimism, or, how to sustain a community archivesRebecka Taves Sheffield2 Affective bonds: what community archives can teach mainstream institutionsMichelle Caswell3 Community archives and the records continuumMichael PiggottPART 2 CASE STUDIES4 Tuku mana taonga, tuku mana tāngata – Archiving for indigenouslanguage and cultural revitalisation: cross sectoral case studies from Aotearoa, New ZealandClaire Hall and Honiana Love5 Self-documentation of Thai communities: reflective thoughts on the Western concept of community archivesKanokporn Nasomtrug Simionica6 Popular music, community archives and public history online cultural justice and the DIY approach to heritagePaul Long, Sarah Baker, Zelmarie Cantillon, Jez Collins and Raphaël Nowak7 Maison d’Haïti’s collaborative archives project: archiving a community of recordsDésirée Rochat, Kristen Young, Marjorie Villefranche and Aziz Choudry8 Indigenous archiving and wellbeing: surviving, thriving, reconcilingJoanne Evans, Shannon Faulkhead, Kirsten Thorpe, Karen Adams, Lauren Booker and Narissa Timbery9 Community engaged scholarship in archival studies: documenting housing displacement and gentrification in a Latino communityJanet Ceja Alcalá10 Post-x: community-based archiving in CroatiaAnne J. Gilliland and Tamara ŠtefanacIndex

Jeannette A Bastian is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Director of the Archives Management concentration at Simmons College, Boston. Andrew Flinn is a Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History. He is the Director of the Archives and Records Management MA programme in the Department of Information Studies at University College London and was the chair of the UK and Ireland Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Research (FARMER) between 2008 and 2011.

"This work encourages the practice of community archives in distinct contexts by centering an openness to adjustment of practices and priorities through relationships. A community archive is ever a model, never a mold."

• ContentsList of figures Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction - Jeannette A. Bastian and Andrew FlinnPART 1 ANALYTICAL ESSAYS1 Archival optimism, or, how to sustain a community archivesRebecka Taves Sheffield2 Affective bonds: what community archives can teach mainstream institutionsMichelle Caswell3 Community archives and the records continuumMichael PiggottPART 2 CASE STUDIES4 Tuku mana taonga, tuku mana tāngata – Archiving for indigenouslanguage and cultural revitalisation: cross sectoral case studies from Aotearoa, New ZealandClaire Hall and Honiana Love5 Self-documentation of Thai communities: reflective thoughts on the Western concept of community archivesKanokporn Nasomtrug Simionica6 Popular music, community archives and public history online cultural justice and the DIY approach to heritagePaul Long, Sarah Baker, Zelmarie Cantillon, Jez Collins and Raphaël Nowak7 Maison d’Haïti’s collaborative archives project: archiving a community of recordsDésirée Rochat, Kristen Young, Marjorie Villefranche and Aziz Choudry8 Indigenous archiving and wellbeing: surviving, thriving, reconcilingJoanne Evans, Shannon Faulkhead, Kirsten Thorpe, Karen Adams, Lauren Booker and Narissa Timbery9 Community engaged scholarship in archival studies: documenting housing displacement and gentrification in a Latino communityJanet Ceja Alcalá10 Post-x: community-based archiving in CroatiaAnne J. Gilliland and Tamara ŠtefanacIndex