Archives for Maintaining Community and Society in the Digital Age

✍ Scribed by Keiji Fujiyoshi

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 123
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores how a society accepts and utilizes a system of archives to improve the quality of people’s lives at each level of community, organization, and government. This is the first book that examines the political, economic, and social background that has prevented the development of archival systems in Japan in comparison with other societies of different cultures such as the United States, Romania, India, and Korea. An archival system is an indispensable tool to live in the present and create a future by sharing an understanding of the past. For that reason, this book considers what “respecting the past” means from the point of view that people experience in their workplace to reconcile tragic experiences such as conflict, injustice, or corruption. Then the book shows how a system of archives plays a significant role in a democratic society because it serves as a foundation of evidence-based decision making for a specific group or the public. Thus, this volume provides guidance for ways that a society can build a common understanding of the importance of sharing the past to maintain community and society.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Contributors
1 Archives for Maintaining Community and Society in the Digital Age: An Introductory Essay
1 Introduction
2 How the Term “Archives” Has Been Accepted in Japan: An Overview
3 How the Term “Accountability” Has Been Accepted in Japan: An Overview
4 How Separation of Powers is Taught to Japanese Students
5 Separation of Powers as Plan-Do-See Human Behavior Pattern with Archives’ Role
6 Role of Archives in the Separation of Powers
7 Conclusion
References
2 Archives in Parliament: Democratic Role of the Japanese National Diet Library
1 Introduction
2 Japanese New Constitution and Establishment of the NDL
3 Overview of the NDL
4 Branch Library System of the NDL
5 Failure of the Branch Library System
6 Why Archives for Democracy?
7 Conclusion
References
3 Citizen Activities and Accountability: Changing Organizations and Reconstruction of Archives
1 Overview
2 Research Background
3 Ombudspersons in Japan
4 Activities for Nursing Homes for the Elderly
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion
References
4 Business Archives: Collective Memory and Selective Approach
1 Introduction
2 Rise of Business Archives in Post-independence India
3 Godrej Archives: The Beginning
4 Collective Memory and Selective Approach
5 Oral History: Had It Not Been Recorded
6 Dilemma that Business Archivists Face
7 Conclusion: Archives in the Corporate Setting
References
5 Search for Missing Links Between Records Management and Business Administration
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review on the Theory of Organization and Management
3 Discussion and Conclusion
References
6 Transitional Justice Strategies of the National State and Its Archivization: A Study on Liquidation of the Past History of the Jeju April 3 Events
1 Introduction
2 Dilemma of the Transitional Justice Strategy
3 Overview of the Jeju April 3rd Events and South Korea’s Efforts to Liquidate the Past Regarding the April 3rd Events
4 The Establishment of a National Monument as Archives and Commemoration
5 Double Standards Inherent in the Jeju April 3rd Peace Park
6 Some Critical Comments on the April 3rd Victims and National Monuments
7 Conclusion—The Possibility of AJ Strategy
References
7 Pluralizing the Archive
1 Introduction
2 Addressing Bitter Pasts
2.1 Recordkeeping and Australia's Indigenous Past and Present
2.2 Queer Communities, Official Records, and Institutional and Grassroots Archives
3 Pluralizing the Archive
4 Conclusion
4.1 Reconfiguring Archival Spaces
4.2 Undertaking Reconciling Research
4.3 Pluralizing Archival Education and Enhancing Pedagogical and Ethical Approaches
References
8 Runners in an “Endless Relay”: A Brief Custodial History of the Archives of a Residents’ Movement in Japan
1 Introduction
2 The Baton of the Relay: The Movement and Its Archives
2.1 About the Movement (1966–1981)
2.2 About the Movement’s Archives
3 Runners Who Took the Baton
3.1 The First Runner: The Citizen Activity Library (1993 or Earlier-1997)
3.2 The Second Runners
3.3 The Third Runner: Rikkyo University (2012-)
4 Discussion
References
9 Current Situation of Ecclesiastic Archives in Transylvania, Romania: Legal Situation and Political Debates
1 Introduction
2 Church Archives in Romania
3 A Case of Roman Catholic Archives in Transylvania
4 Cases in Moldova and Walachia
5 During and After the Communist Regime
6 Conclusion
10 Regulation of the Female Body in Japanese Society and Its Transformation Through Globalization: From Reigi-Saho to Image Control
1 Introduction
2 Reigi-Saho in Japanese Society, and Manners/Etiquette in Western Society
2.1 Manners and Etiquette in the West
2.2 Reigi-Saho in Japan
3 Women and Body Regulation
3.1 Body Regulation in Modern Japanese Society
3.2 Women and Sado
4 Transformation of Female Body Regulation: Release from Tradition
4.1 Body Regulation in the Post War Period
4.2 Body and Discipline
5 Globalization and Female Body Regulation: Appearance of the ‘Image Consultancy Organization’
5.1 Contemporary Female Body Regulation
5.2 Expansion of the World as Goffman Predicted
6 Conclusion: From Reigi-Saho to Image Control
References
11 Simmel in the Archive: On the Conflict of Late Modern Culture
1 Introduction
2 Between the Individual and the Social: On the Objective and Subjective Cultures
3 The Tragedy of Culture
4 On Time and Culture
5 The Conflict of (Late) Modern Culture
6 On History and Memory
7 Bringing It All to the Archive
References