Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Archival Education and Human Rights
InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=477
In a recent article in American Archivist, a group of some two-dozen
archival faculty and doctoral students from programs around the world
called on archival educators to develop a new educational framework that
both reflects and reflects upon pluralist approaches to archival theory
and practice.1 This article added to an ongoing conversation in
archival education regarding the ethical imperative of faculty to engage
students with culturally sensitive curricula and to promote a social
justice agenda in and outside the classroom. At the same time, a growing
body of archival studies literature has addressed the intersection of
archives and human rights, interrogating the role of records and
recordkeeping institutions in both facilitating human rights violations
and holding oppressive regimes legally and historically accountable for
such violations.
This special issue of InterActions seeks to bring together these two
streams of archival thought in hopes of explicating the role of human
rights and social justice in archival education. How are we to conceive
of human rights at the nexus of archival education, research, and
action? What ethical responsibilities do archival educators have in
addressing human rights concerns in the classroom? What pedagogical
strategies might educators employ in order to include discussions about
human rights and archives within the context of professional training
and practices, and the theories that undergird them? InterActions seeks
to include a range of submissions, including (but not limited to)
research articles, literature reviews, book reviews, exhibition reviews,
featured commentaries, and position pieces. Submissions should
incorporate critical perspectives that aim to bridge multiple discourses
around the theme of the issue. All submissions will be subject to
double-blind peer-review and authors are expected to adhere to the
deadlines to ensure the timely publication of the special issue.
Possible research questions:
- How might "human rights" be defined in the context of archival
education? What are the opportunities and difficulties of adopting an
orientation toward human rights in archival education?
- What is the relationship between a social justice agenda and a human
rights framework in the archival classroom? What roles might information
technologies play in working toward classroom agendas for extending and
supporting human rights?
- What theoretical positions might be taken up when considering the
current and future state of research in the domains of human rights and
archival education?
- What philosophical, pedagogical, political, and/or ethical questions
are at play that might provide opportunities for strategic action?
- How might archival educators incorporate human rights genealogies and/or frameworks?
- What are the implications of globalization on discourses on human rights in archival education?
- How might archival education and/or human rights intersect with the
roles and responsibilities of educational institutions within the public
sector?
Timeline:
- Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2012
- Tentative deadline for peer reviews of submitted manuscripts: March 15, 2012
- Tentative deadline for revisions to submitted manuscript: April 30, 2012
- Publication date for the Special Issue on Human Rights: Early June 2012
Please submit manuscripts at
http://escholarship.org/uc/gseis_interactions or directly to the email
addresses below. Any questions or inquiries about the special issue may
be directed to:
- Andrew J Lau (UCLA; Information Studies Editor for InterActions):
andrewjlau@ucla.edu
- Michelle Caswell (University of Wisconsin, Madison; Guest Editor):
mcaswell@wisc.edu
- InterActions: interactions@gseis.ucla.edu
InterActions is a peer-reviewed on-line journal committed to the
promotion of interdisciplinary and critical scholarship. Edited by
students in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information
Studies, the journal brings together senior and emerging scholars,
activists, and professionals whose work covers a broad range of theory
and practice. InterActions is published twice yearly with funding
provided by the UCLA Graduate Students Association and the UCLA Graduate
School of Education & Information Studies.
For more information, please visit http://escholarship.org/uc/gseis_interactions.