Naslov
Socialist understanding of archival profession

Autori
Heđbeli, Živana : Mokrović, Nikola

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Atlanti+ 30/1 / Klasinc, Peter Pavel - Trst : Maribor : International Institute form Archival Scinece Trieste . mari bor, 2020, 28-35

Skup
30th Conference International Archival Day

Mjesto i datum
Online, 07.12.2020. - 08.12.2020

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
archives, socialism, specialized archives, records appraisal

Sažetak
Authors have presented socialist understanding of the archival profession. The work is based on a relevant literature, laws, and statistical data. By using the statistical and descriptive method of analysis, it is elaborated whether the socialist regimes cared about the archives, and if they did, to what extent. There is no unified understanding of history in Socialist theory, as it contains a variety of theoretical orientations that attach different meanings to the concept, depending on other important concepts (state, freedom, class), and on different levels of theoretical consciousness. The problem of large backlogs of unsorted records has for many years been a fundamental characteristic of archival practice. Sticking mostly to technical issues, the relevant articles on this topic mainly wring their hands over the situation and try to standardize it as much as possible. Socialist theories of history, whether Marxist or non-Marxist, do not directly engender an attitude towards how certain material traces will be appraised. That is, they do not contain any epistemological predisposition that would determine the value of evidence, and thus directly influence an archival conception. In Socialist systems, the fundamental problem lay in the duality between the state and the party, which was either manifest in the invisibility of certain archives, or represents the potential for powerful social standardization, strong social values in the establishment of specialized archives whose role was to preserve, promote use of the records. There is a need to envisage a comprehensive metaphysics and philosophy of the archival science, and create an all-encompassing archivist paradigm appropriate to all the specificities of the history and development of Croatia – a task that neither the SRC nor, at least as yet, the Republic of Croatia have yet undertaken.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

POVEZANOST RADA