Transborder Knowledge-Making: Accessing, Reclaiming, and Creating Digital Archives

Abstract

This article brings attention to challenges faced by stakeholders in Mexico-United States border cultural heritage, from community access to material to the reclaiming of a transborder history. Focusing on print culture, in this case newspapers in physical, microfilm and digital formats, this analysis sheds light on how classification schemes, infrastructures, and their governance raise inequities within archival material housed in governmental institutions, universities, and commercial platforms located in both Mexico and the United States. Finally, this work proposes binational-transnational ethical practices and digital initiatives that allow and facilitate the creation of transborder knowledge by integrating border cultural heritage with digital humanities.