Politics of Citation, Revealing Systems Of Exclusivity
| Sal Hamerman, David Isaac Hecht, Dan Taeyoung, Charles Eppley, Sam Hart, Melanie Hoff | 2018 |
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Description
Revealing Systems of Exclusion was an interactive installation that considers how biases perpetuate through systems of indexing and citation. The Library assembled a subcollection of ~100 titles—drawn to serve as the basis for a collaborative analysis of citation practices.
By browsing, reading, and reflecting together, the project sought to imagine how an equitable -- perhaps non-institutional -- form of citation practice might look… a citation practice that…
- amplifies marginalized voices
- makes implicit power structures visible
- validates personal input over rigid structure
- nourishes relationships rather than name-checking
- is qualitative rather than solely quantitative
- decolonizes scholarly and disciplinary thinking
- examines the politics of citation and the index
- embraces activism and social justice
- makes visible the social life and context of information
- and what else?