Editorial Bradburne, James M
Museum management and curatorship (1990),
10/2020, Letnik:
35, Številka:
5
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Welcome to the fifth issue of 2020. The changes that we experienced at the beginning of the year have continued to accelerate, and much of the world is still living under some form of restrictions, ...and the global economy is still being devastated by the pandemic. With the murders in the United States of America of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, and more recently, the shooting of Jacob Blake, we continue to see growing international support for the Black Lives Matter movement, whose core principles speak to countless racialised people whose voices have been ignored for decades and centuries, around the globe. We cannot abstain from these issues, as we too are an expression of the systemic asymmetries of power and privilege. So what can we do? First, we can voice our support for those fighting for social justice, and acknowledge the necessity of actively reflecting on our roles in systemic and structural racism. Second, we can use our platform to amplify voices and experiences within museums that are under-represented, if represented at all. Third, in addition to producing special issues (such as last year’s issue on Social Justice, and the upcoming issue on Climate Change) we can highlight the articles published in our archive that have regained relevance in the current political context, or that shine a light on how we came to be where we are today.
The backdrop for this paper has been the ongoing COVID pandemic and the author's personal response to the murder of George Floyd and the enduring destructiveness of racism and white supremacy that ...resides here in the US In writing this paper, the author argues that currently we are witnessing and living with the formidable trans-generationally transmitted return of inherited racial hatred that had been more repressed, denied, and refused. The challenge for the author, and for psychoanalysis in general, is to consider in what ways our theories and praxis keep in place whiteness as the unmarked category, a standard benefitting itself. As a result, the legacy of embedded racism continues to be reproduced. Transgenerational transmissions of racial trauma and the rupturing of attachments are examined within the author's background and in a clinical case with a white patient.
Organizational theory scholars typically see organizations as race-neutral bureaucratic structures, while race and ethnicity scholars have largely neglected the role of organizations in the social ...construction of race. The theory developed in this article bridges these subfields, arguing that organizations are racial structures—cognitive schemas connecting organizational rules to social and material resources. I begin with the proposition that race is constitutive of organizational foundations, hierarchies, and processes. Next, I develop four tenets: (1) racialized organizations enhance or diminish the agency of racial groups; (2) racialized organizations legitimate the unequal distribution of resources; (3) Whiteness is a credential; and (4) the decoupling of formal rules from organizational practice is often racialized. I argue that racialization theory must account for how both state policy and individual attitudes are filtered through—and changed by—organizations. Seeing race as constitutive of organizations helps us better understand the formation and everyday functioning of organizations. Incorporating organizations into a structural theory of racial inequality can help us better understand stability, change, and the institutionalization of racial inequality. I conclude with an overview of internal and external sources of organizational change and a discussion of how the theory of racialized organizations may set the agenda for future research.
This article analyses how legal precarity overlaps with different forms of gendered racialization and impacts on migrant women's mothering practices. It traces how migrant mothers' encounters with, ...and categorizations by, the asylum regime have direct and indirect repercussions on the relationships with their children. The article presents the legal trajectories of two migrant women in Germany centring on three different aspects of motherhood that define these women's experiences of legal precarity. First, it describes mothering as a form of gendered and racialized hyper-visibility in the public sphere. Second, mothering practices are analysed in a bureaucratic context in which a mother's legal inscription as an asylum seeker with an unresolved national background denies access to proper certification for the children. Third, the article engages with the dimension of interdependence showing how legal precarity creates a feedback loop of fear between mothers and children.
Experiences of feeling haunted and of being in the presence of ghosts are prominent in narratives of patients/people of color in the United States and of mixed-race identity. A creative reading of ...Hans Loewald's evocative statement on therapeutic action, the process of transforming "ghosts into ancestors," is used to explore a way of being with and healing patients with mixed-race identities who are imprisoned in melancholic states. An extended case vignette of an Indian American psychoanalyst working with a patient with a mixed racial identity highlights racialized components of melancholia and illuminates specific countertransference states and enactments that can both impede and allow for the gradual and partial witnessing of racialized ghosts and their transformation into ancestors.
A narrative of one black woman who is a trained psychoanalyst in America gives a small window to the way raced, gendered, and economic experiences influenced her perception of her world. Candid ...descriptions of situations she encountered, participated in, and observed are offered to illuminate some of the continued racialization of difference that is a part of the psychoanalytic community. The reader is asked to rely on the theoretical positions offered by the author to understand the importance of recognizing minoritarian voices as authentic and relevant to the work of psychoanalysis.
This conceptual paper makes a theoretical intervention into situated learning and communities of practice theories, arguing that they must account for social relations of racialization and ...colonialism. I contend that the epistemologies and ontologies of a community of practice are embedded in social relations; therefore, neglecting power dynamics dilutes theorizations of learning, participation, resistance, and identity. I draw on vignettes from an environmentalist community of practice to demonstrate possible gaps in the ways situated learning theory is mobilized. I argue that the field of situated learning needs more robust tools to theorize the practices of both privilege and resistance to understand learning in multiracial, multigendered, settler-colonial communities of practice.
City governments are embracing data‐driven and algorithmic planning to tackle urban problems. Data‐driven analytics have an unprecedented capacity to call urban futures into being. At the same time, ...they can depoliticize planning decisions. I argue that this shift calls urban studies scholars to investigate geographies of algorithmic violence—a repetitive and standardized form of violence that contributes to the racialization of space and spatialization of poverty. This article examines this broader phenomenon through the case of a proprietary market value assessment that is being used to guide development in cities across the United States. The assessment employs an algorithm that helps city officials make critical decisions about which neighborhoods to target for investment, disinvestment and public service upgrades or disconnections. I argue that the racial, infrastructural, and epistemological violence associated with this evaluation can potentially lead to a new kind of municipal redlining. The article brings insights from critical race theory into conversation with critical scholarship on algorithms by analyzing how algorithmic violence works through data‐driven planning technologies to depoliticize and leverage power while further entrenching racism and inequality.
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