In this dissertation, then, I examine the ways in which Eurocentric intellectual frameworks continue to frame archival theory and, thus, delimit how archivists and researchers produce knowledge about and through archives. Thus, as opposed to interrogating a pre-existing archive, archival theory produces imaginative and material archival spaces in which archivists and researchers labour. At the base of this examination of archival theory is the assumption that theory produces the object it evaluates. This dissertation is interested in how archival theory-the theoretical work of archiving produced by archivists and, to a lesser extent, the modes of doing archival research deployed by researchers-tackles the colonial roots and routes of archives, archivists and archival theories and practices.
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