Steps Toward a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Museum Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21310050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Fraser (0000-0001-8383-0699, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 609-611 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Curator The Museum Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3069 • E-ISSN: 2151-6952 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cura.12450 |
| OpenAlex | W3208652257 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
In summer 2021, Wiley, the publisher of this journal, issued a public statement on their commitment to diversity as a path to strengthen knowledge. At this journal, we have worked for the past five years to make representation on our editorial board a priority. As a member of the Committee on Publishing ethics, we have worked to ensure timely peer-review by global experts on museum practice, which includes recruiting reviews from the author’s country of origin and at least one global expert in the subject matter. We have focused on building an editorial board that reflects the nations where we find our readers. Our greatest challenge, however, is securing content that ensures equal voice in a world where marginalized groups face discrimination and tend to be left out of the scholarly press. This is particularly true for our global colleagues who work in regions where discriminatory practices are embedded in national policy or practice. Too often, museums find themselves reinforcing the status quo, unable to hire, promote, or permit those from historically excluded groups from entering the profession. To support a more global perspective on this issue, Wiley has published a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) statement that can be found on the journal’s home page and serves to guide our work. While these statements are increasingly common for many journals, it is important to make it clear how we hope our journal can expand representation in museum work. For this journal, we embrace the principles of DE&I, and that means being vigilant in our efforts to gather contributions from museums that are working to make a more equitable world. We are committed to recognizing the principles of diversity articulated by Rodriguez (2016) including “the visible and invisible physical and social characteristics that make an individual or group of individuals different from one another, and by doing so, celebrating that difference as a source of strength for the community at large” (p. 242). Our equitable practices mean treating “individuals according to their needs and provide multiple opportunities for success” (p. 243). Over the past five years, we’ve identified specific needs that are unique to our global practice so that we can reshape our journal to meet those needs. In 2022, we will request that all authors include visual text descriptions of any figures, to ensure that screen readers can report on the images included in online versions of papers. We now have expertise on our team to support reviewers who require accommodations for dyslexia. And, as we have announced in past issues, our translations efforts, being led by Dr. Yong Ying Dong from Xidian University, have matured to the point that we can launch a bibliography on our social media page in 2022. CuratorJournal.org will soon offer short-cuts to the growing library of translated articles. Coincident with the publication of this editorial, we are launching a new wave of priority recruitment to our editorial board and seeking reviewers that reflect the diversity of our profession. We are also actively encouraging our board to reach out to authors in their regions to ensure we are able to publish papers that represent the breadth of diversity in museum practice, and help new voices find themselves in our pages. Lastly, we thank Wiley’s DE&I Core Working Group and Paul Dingman, our Publishing Manager at Wiley, for working with us to identify 19 articles from the past decade that focus on global efforts to support equity in museum practice. Today, these papers listed below as Open Access Resources or can also be accessed through the Wiley Online Library at https://rise.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ John Fraser, Editor ([email protected]) is a psychologist, architect, and President & CEO of Knology, a non-profit charitable social science research institute in the USA
Diversity (politics) · Equity (law) · Face (sociological concept) · Inclusion (mineral) · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Publishing · Representation (politics) · Social science · Sociology · Status quo · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Participatory Visual Research Methods
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Perspective‐Taking Can Lead to Increased Bias
It’s Not Just for the Children
Museums 1 can Save Lives
No Small Steps
Museum Workers Must Listen Carefully to What Our Community is Saying During Demonstrations and Unrest
Redefining Curatorial Leadership and Activating Community Expertise to Build Equitable and Inclusive Art Museums
Barriers to Social Inclusion with the Egyptian Museums; New Approach Towards Disability
Reconsidering People as the Institution
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