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archival imaginary: a standalone construct

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Archival science

the hopes, fantasies and imagined uses that people attach to records, including records that are absent or never existed, which shape how archives are valued.

In archival science, archival imaginary refers to the hopes, fantasies and imagined uses that people attach to records, including records that are absent or never existed, which shape how archives are valued. This meaning comes from Gilliland (2015) in Archival Science.[1]

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  1. Gilliland, A. J., & Caswell, M. (2015). Records and their imaginaries: imagining the impossible, making possible the imagined. Archival Science, 16(1), 53-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-015-9259-z

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