Archiving Loss- Front Cover -- Archiving Loss -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: pouring memory -- Part I: The archive -- Chapter 1: Power in the archives -- The archives of the Victorian Government Reserves and Mission Stations -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Expectations in the archive -- A brief history of archives -- The archive as an institution of power -- Archives as constructs -- Chapter 3: Archives and difficult events -- A sequence of 'nows' -- Archives of evil: before and during the event -- What remains? -- The loss of loss itself: losing archive -- Notes -- Part II: Archive fever -- Note -- Chapter 4: Counting to discount -- Counting in the archive: names and numbers -- 'Never again': memory and the fear of forgetting -- Note -- chapter 5: The language and logic ofthe archive -- Archival language -- Archival logic -- Note -- Part III: Remembering in the archive -- chapter 6: Archival filters -- The archive as a chaperone -- The archive in our thoughts: looking at their pastfrom our present -- Viewing the archive as the finished story:questions of curation -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The archive as a gate opener -- Ambient archives: an archive in your pocket -- Note -- Chapter 8: Loss and the archive -- Endurance of loss -- Holding still: objects and memory -- Walking out of the archive: movement and speech -- Notes -- References -- Index