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Nevertheless, various postmodern reflections in the past two decades have made it manifestly clear that archives-as institutions- wield power over the administrative, legal, and fiscal accountability of governments, corporations, and individuals, and engage in powerful public policy debates around the right to know, freedom of information, protection of privacy, copyright and intellectual property, and protocols for electronic commerce.
those marginalized by the archival enterprise, Gerda Lemer has convincingly traced, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, the systemic exclusion of women from society's memory tools and institutions, including archives.9 And from yet another perspective, archivists in developing countries are now seriously questioning whether classic archival concepts that emerged from the written culture of European bureaucracies are appropriate for preserving the memories of oral cultures.10 The engagement of colonial and post colonial studies with the postmodern or " historic turn," as do the articles by Ann Stoler and Jim O' Toole in this issue, suggests that, by treating records and archives as contested sites of power, we can bring new sensibilities to understanding records and archives as dynamic technologies of rule which actually create the histories and social realities they ostensibly only describe.
And the postmodern destabilization of our bedrock concepts of reality, truth, and objectivity has placed both power and representation under close scrutiny.
tions, so dependent on notions of neutrality and objectivity, are unseated when postmodern concerns for situated knowledge, alterity, hybridity, liminality, and plurivocality are raised.
Terry Cook, " Archival Science and Postmodernism; New Formulations for Old Concepts" ,
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