Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
The general theme that underpins this work is archival temporalities. Thinking about the category of “time” implies organizing the world in a certain way. In archival theory, perhaps, this debate is not so explicit, but the different conceptions of time have direct consequences for thinking about records/archives. Both classical and critical perspectives in the field have different understandings of time, which directly influences the various conceptions of records and archives. One example is the different models of document management: the life cycle and the records continuum. In this context, this work starts with the following question: How have critical archival studies considered time? And can this approach be understood as a decolonial dimension? This is an exploratory and descriptive methodology based on literature. The results reveal that by looking at the category of “time,” we can identify different senses of change, which can already be considered a decolonial dimension. In this regard, we present the concept of corazonar, which aims to expand the dimension of time, and also the work of critical archival studies, with Caswell on the work of liberating memory, as well as the concept of temporal autonomy. Although this is an initial work, we believe that such discussions are still recent in the national literature,
and we need to advance in these studies in order to expand these debates.
