ABSTRACT
This book has argued that archives are neither about the safety of the past nor the distance of the future, but about enacting political change right now. In order to transform dominant archival practices into liberatory memory work, Urgent Archives, asserts we must rethink and redo the foundational oppressive concepts and structures upon which dominant Western archival theory and practice is based. The book concludes by asking readers to join the author in conceiving of and enacting new liberatory archival worlds.
