Abstract
Rather than provide a broad toolkit of methods that can be used when undertaking archival or document-based research, this article offers a diagnosis of recent developments in the study of documents and archives. It first sketches some reasons for these developments, followed by an outline of some of the work that geographers are beginning to draw from in order to reconceptualize the document as a critically significant object of material culture. This feeds into an account of some major theoretical works that inform geographers’ growing interest in archival research and in archives, not simply as containers of potentially important information, but as curious cultural artifacts in themselves.
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