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The majority of the papers in this special double issue on archives and human rights were originally presented at the symposium “The Antonym of Forgetting: Global Perspectives on Human Rights Archives,” which was held October 18 and 19, 2013, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Footnote 1 The symposium explored the complex political, ethical, legal, and cultural challenges faced in the creation, preservation, and use of records documenting human rights crises. In bringing together an international group of archivists and scholars whose work addresses archival issues in a broad range of countries—South Africa, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda, and the United States—the symposium provided an opportunity to develop interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of archival theory and practice, human rights, history, anthropology, and law. Interest in human rights within archival studies has exploded over the past decade. This burgeoning subfield has ex

Defining human rights archives: introduction to the special double issue on archives and human rights Editorial Published: 03 September 2014 Volume 14 , pages 207–213 ( 2014 ) Cite this article Download PDF Save article View saved research Archival Science Aims and scope Submit manuscript Defining human rights archives: introduction to the special double issue on archives and human rights Download PDF Is it possible the antonym of forgetting is not remembering but justice? Yosef Yerushalmi ( 2005 , p. 117) The majority of the papers in this special double issue on archives and human rights wer

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