Introduction to the special issue on trauma-informed approaches to archives and records

This double special issue on trauma-informed approaches to archives is aligned with a recent growth in scholarship examining ‘trauma’ as an explanatory category of relevance to archivists and broader record workersFootnote1 and all those who are represented in, are related to, or who encounter archives and records. In this opening section we offer a brief and broad overview of the archival scholarship surrounding this emergent focus on trauma and trauma-informed practice to relationally position the issue’s articles.

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