The 'archival turn'has prompted historical scholarship to reevaluate the positivist sourcing of
knowledge, especially in contentious contexts. The archive's configuration, and attendant …

Political scientists are increasingly using digitized documents from archives. This article is a
practical introduction to doing digital archival research. First, it explains when and why …

This article traces the bureaucratic bases of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. I draw on
ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Rohingya activists to elucidate the political …

In our contemporary moment, there exists a hegemonic design practice and a general social
desire to retain information. With the help of sociotechnical platforms and other …

Holocaust archives have traditionally been the scholarly territory of the humanities.
However, given the tremendous increase in the number of testimonies and documents …

The growing application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of information retrieval (IR)
affects different domains, including cultural heritage. By facilitating organisation and retrieval …

In this article, I claim that demographic engineering scholarship cannot adequately explain
the production of demographic engineering practices because they suffer from two classic …

Drawing on trade publications, contemporaneous newspaper stories, and other historical
sources from the early twentieth-century United States, this article explains how installment …

In recent years, social scientists have “(re) discovered history” by visiting archives, collecting
documents, and analyzing their findings to address concerns about the causes and …

What happens at the point of interchange between scholarly communities? We examine this
question by investigating the case of growing ties between historical sociology and …