Articles

Published recently in refereed journals:

  • Frank Golding, Sue McKemmish, & Barbara Reed, (2021). Towards Transformative Practice in Our of Home Care: Chartering Rights in Recordkeeping, Archives and Manuscripts, published online 4 August 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2021.1954041\

  • Frank Golding, Nina Lewis, Sue McKemmish, Greg Rolan, Kirsten Thorpe (2020) Rights in Records: A Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out-of-Home Care for Australian and Indigenous Australian Children and Care Leavers, The International Journal of Human Rights online (Manuscript ID FJHR-2020-0121.R1).
  • Philip Mendes, Jacqueline Z Wilson, Frank Golding (2020). Child Protection Hypothetical Case Studies for a Virtual Archive: Professional Perspectives Versus the Lived Experience and Expertise of Care Leavers in Victoria, Australia. British Journal of Social Work, bcaa018, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa018. Published: 07 April 2020.
  • Sue McKemmish, Frank Golding, et al. (2019). Decolonizing recordkeeping and archival praxis in childhood out-of-home Care and indigenous archival collections, Archival Science, August 2019.
  • Frank Golding (2019). “‘Problems with records and recordkeeping practices are not confined to the past’: a challenge from the Royal Commission”, a paper delivered at Community Informatics Research Network Conference 24-28 October 2018, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy. Now published in Archival Science, April 2019. A preliminary draft is at https://www.conftool.net/prato2018/index.php?page=submissions
  • Frank Golding (2019). Some survivors are more equal than others: Unintended consequences of a royal commission. Paper delivered at the Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference 2019: Encounters and Exchanges, 26-28 June, Australian Catholic University, Sydney.
  • Rolan, G., Evans, J., Bone, J., Lewis, A., Golding, F., Wilson, J. Z., McKemmish, S., Mendes, P., Reeves, K. (2018). Weapons of Affect: the imperative for transdisciplinary Information Systems design. In 81st ASIS&T Annual Meeting Proceedings (pp. 436–445). Vancouver: Association for Information Science and Technology.

NEWS FLASH: The above article along with all the other articles in this Issue of the Journal of Australian Studies – a special issue on the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse – is being republished as a book later this year. The title of the book is: Confronting the Past, Shaping the Future: The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.   I’ll post details when I have them.

Extracts from the anonymous referees’ reports show that increasingly people in a range of disciplines are beginning to appreciate the issues confronting survivors of institutional ‘care’:
Reviewer #1: This is a remarkable and extremely important paper. It is certainly a paper of its time and its difficult to conceive of such a paper being presented to an academic archival journal even five years ago. It is a critical story that needs to be told and the authors have taken what I see as an unprecedented step in telling their own stories in a public academic forum to enable both the intellectual and professional discourse in archival science to confront a reality that is almost impossible to relate from the archivist perspective. 

Reviewer #2: …this article is articulate, interesting and does an effective job of communicating the affective and life altering ramifications of Care leaver files. In addition, its use of the author’s own experiences as examples of the impact of the writing of distorted narratives is well balanced with the contextual aspects of the piece…
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