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Maeul-making, which is to restore inherent characteristics of maeul as a living community has been proceeded by local communities themselves since the 1990s when political democracy and local government in Korean society has been progressed in full-scale. Although New Maeul Movement has been done in the 1970s before and after, it is different from maeul-making because it was focused mainly on improving physical environments of rural communities and initiated by government. The development of maeul community archives in Korea has been related closely to such a maeul-making since the 1990s. Maeul-based community archives, maeul community archives had been begun to build as part of maeul-making and grass-root movement by the 2000s. Initiated by self-motivated communities, maeul community archives were carried out through cooperations between civic activists and residents in maeul communities and voluntary professional archivists from outside. Although records about the maeul community has been collected by mainstream cultural institutions such as public archives, museum, local historical association, and local cultural center, it was at this time to collect records of the maeul community by self-motivated local residents. This tendency of 'independent' maeul community archives, however, is currently entering upon a new phase with the city of Seoul's project (2012) to support making a maeul community, that is, the governance phase based on private-government partnership. At this point of time, it is important for maeul community archives to be built on privately-led governance model that guarantees their autonomy and at the same time bring government's knowhow and supports into them, as opposed to the way captured or driven unilaterally by government. This article explores the growth of maeul community archives and collections in Korean society through a range of self-motivated bodies; the interaction with government; and as a result of those interactions, the creation of maeul community archives based on governance. To introduce and explicate the motivations behind maeul archiving endeavors, this article will first sketch something of the historical, social, and political context in which 'maeul' communities have arisen, collapsed, and restored. It will then examine in more detail some specific examples of maeul community archives as grass-root movement of maeul community. The third section will attempt to identify the governance model of maeul community archives under the auspices of the city of Seoul and its limitations. Finally through these activities, it will suggest the ways in which maeul community archives commit themselves to their duty of grass-root movement of community and at the same time, secure sustainability, that is, concrete ways of privately initiated governance model.
이 논문은 국내 마을공동체 아카이브의 역사적 사례들을 통해 주민 주도형 마을아카이브 거버넌스 구축과 이의 지속성을 확보하기 위한 기록학적 방안을 구체화하는데 연구 목적이 있다. 먼저 역사적으로 한국 사회에서 마을과 마을공동체의 역사적 형성과 쇠락의 과정 속에서 자생적으로 출현했던 성미산과 풀무 마을공동체 아카이브의 출현을 살핀다. 본 연구는 풀뿌리 운동의 일환으로 구축된 이들 '독립' 공동체 아카이브를 마을 공동체의 내적 동인에 의해 추동된 자율적 자생적 산물로 바라본다. 반면 2000년대 접어들면서 이러한 독립 마을 공동체아카이브가 민 관 협업에 의해 새로운 공동체아카이브의 발전 국면에 돌입했다고 본다. 이 글은 서울시가 마을아카이브 시범사업을 통해서 과거 중앙정부 주도의 전시행정적 컬렉션 구축을 넘어서서 마을주민 스스로 아카이브를 구축할 수 있는 역량 강화에 일부 성공했다고 판단한다. 하지만 서울시의 거버넌스 모델은 궁극적으로 정책 사업화하면서 오히려 마을아카이브가 지니는 풀뿌리적 성격과 아카이브의 지속적 발전 개념을 확보하기에 여전히 한계가 있다고 보고 있다. 이 글은 실제 서울시 마을공동체 아카이브 시범사업에 대한 분석을 통해 그 명암을 살펴보고, 마을공동체 아카이브의 발전적 대안을 마련한다.