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An impassioned and multidisciplinary argument for engaging with the archive as both vitally generative and ripe for critique and reimagination within the arts and humanities.

Archival Entanglements arrives in the wake of the archival turn in the arts and humanities. What humanists call “the archive” has been challenged, deconstructed, and reinvented, but, as editors Puja Batra-Wells and Harmony Bench show, the conversation about the archive is far from over. In this interdisciplinary collection, contributors from digital humanities, performance studies, labor studies, race and ethnic studies, and more come together to shed new light on how objects, knowledges, environments, bodily practices, and identities are entangled with the archive. Showcasing a range of approaches from traditional essays to artistic engagements, the works in this collection complicate questions of archival memory; raise issues of accessibility, erasure, latency, and surveillance; and ask if we should forge new spaces of remembrance that reach beyond the limits of the archive. Archival Entanglements posits the archive as both a generative site of knowledge production and a constricted force of consolidation around dominant narratives—essentially, as a complex web of theories and practices with which the arts and humanities are fundamentally entangled.

Contributors:
Anurima Banerji, Franco Barchiesi, Puja Batra-Wells, Harmony Bench, Johannah Bird, Leigh Bonds, Iñaki Bonillas, Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Eric Gonzaba, Brian Harnetty, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Kelly Kivland, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Mariah E. Marsden, Mimi ?n??ha, Martin Joseph Ponce, Rebecca Schneider, Amy Shuman, Michelle Wibbelsman, Nicole Wood

The Folklorist in the Marketplace brings together voices from multiple disciplines to consider how economics shape—and are shaped by—folk groups and academic disciplines. The authors ask how folk and folklorists can productively comment on the economic structures they inhabit.
 
As trade, technology, and geopolitics have led to a rapid increase in the global spread of cultural products like media, knowledge, objects, and folkways, there has been a concomitant rise in fear and anxiety about globalization’s dark other side—economic nativism, neocolonialism, cultural appropriation, and loss. Culture has become a resource and a currency in the global marketplace. This movement of people and forms necessitates a new textual consideration of how folklore and economics interweave. In The Folklorist in the Marketplace, contributors explore how the marketplace and folklore have always been integrally linked and what that means at this cultural and economic moment.
 
Covering a variety of topics, from creel boats to the history of a commune that makes hammocks, The Folklorist in the Marketplace goes far beyond the well-trod examinations of material culture to look closely at the historical and contemporary intersections of these two disciplines and to provoke cross-disciplinary conversation and collaboration.
 
 
Contributors:
William A. Ashton, Halle M. Butvin, James I. Deutsch, Christofer Johnson, Michael Lange, John Laudun, Julie M-A LeBlanc, Cassie Patterson, Rahima Schwenkbeck, Amy Shuman, Irene Sotiropoulou, Yuanhao Zhao