Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang, eds. Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession

• Autores: Matrice Young (res.)
• Localización: RBM : A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, ISSN 1529-6407, Vol. 26, Nº. 2, 2025, págs. 144-146
• Idioma: inglés

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  • Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang, eds. Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession.

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    Estados Unidos : Library Juice Press, 2024

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  • What does it mean to engage with—and participate in—the archives and other institutions that have sought to simultaneously scrutinize and erase sick people,” writes Alexandra Pucciarelli in her article “Seeing Sickness: Archival and Embodied Encounters with the Medical Panopticon”(101). How do you exist in a world that sweeps away your living and leaves behind only the dust of your bones and not the fruits of your being? Pucciarelli’s quote is what makes books like Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession so important