dc.contributor.author | Valderhaug, Gudmund | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-24T10:33:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-02-24T10:33:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-03-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Valderhaug, G. (2010). Memory, Justice and the Public Record. Archival Science, Online First | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | Online: 1573-7500 | |
dc.identifier.issn | Print: 1389-0166 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/614 | |
dc.description.abstract | After WWII, there were approximately 10,000 children with Norwegian
mothers and German fathers in Norway. In the late 1980s, these ‘‘war children’s’’
fate became a topic of public debate, when accusations of maltreatment and
harassment were made public. A research project organised by the Norwegian
Research Council in 1998 concluded that the children had been subject to harassment
and illegally deprived of some of their basic civilian rights between 1945 and
1955. Then, in 2006, Norwegian parliament approved a special reparation system
for war children, in which the size of the compensation was made dependent on the
documentation that each individual might bring forth. After 2 years of this system’s
functioning, it is evident that only a small percentage of the war children have been
able to produce the necessary evidence. In this article, I will explore the roles that
social memory and archival records may have played in constructing the war
children as a social group, why the individual war child’s life tends to be poorly
documented in public records, and why the reparation system privileges public
records as evidence. Finally, I will discuss the archivist’s position as the intermediary
between the records and the individuals seeking justice, how archivists should
respond to such calls for justice and what they might do to create a more inclusive
memory of the past. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Archival Science;Online First | |
dc.subject | Archivists | en_US |
dc.subject | Ethics | en_US |
dc.subject | Justice | en_US |
dc.subject | Public records | en_US |
dc.subject | VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Biblioteks- og informasjonsvitenskap: 320::Arkivistikk: 326 | en_US |
dc.title | Memory, Justice and the Public Record | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.version | Postprint version of published article. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com, direct URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10502-010-9110-5 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10502-010-9110-5 | |