Fraccaroli, Y. orcid.org/0000-0001-5405-8054 and Simonetto, P. orcid.org/0000-0001-5906-7072 (2025) An LGTBIQ + archival boom? Grassroot archival activism and memory politics in Latin America. International Journal of Cultural Studies. ISSN 1367-8779
Abstract
The formation of LGTBIQ + community archives across Latin America has increased significantly recently, becoming vehicles for challenging cis-heteronormative narratives of the past and pushing the limits of democracy. This article asks how and since when did queer/trans archiving, curating, and displaying material become articulated as activism in Latin America? What are the cultural and political meanings of these practices, and how do these relate to a global community archival boom? To answer these questions, we mapped 55 LGTBIQ + community archives and developed a discourse analysis of their digital content. This analysis highlights references to memory as an active political process to critically engage with the past and disrupt the progress narratives of democratisation in the present. We argue that the Latin America case should be understood within the hybridisation of a global rise of archival activism and a shared grammar of using the past as a political tool.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2025. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Archival activism; Latin America; queer archive; social movements; LGTBIQ+ activism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2025 12:39 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jun 2025 12:39 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/13678779251345149 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:227246 |