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[1] From: Brian Croxall <brian.croxall@byu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.67: multiculturalism and Digital Humanities Quarterly (124)
[2] From: Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.67: multiculturalism and Digital Humanities Quarterly (74)
[3] From: Tanya E. Clement <tclement@utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.67: multiculturalism and Digital Humanities Quarterly (6)
[4] From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: apologies for a stupid mismatch (11)
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Date: 2022-06-15 16:52:44+00:00
From: Brian Croxall <brian.croxall@byu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.67: multiculturalism and Digital Humanities Quarterly
Dear Maurizio,
I need to offer a correction here: DHQ is not owned by EADH but is instead owned
by ACH, which is, of course, the US-based DH scholarly organization. It is true
that ADHO subvenes DHQ in the same amount that ACH provides to the journal. It
is also factally incorrect that all of the “top level management roles” at DHQ
are based in North America since Nirmala Menon is at the Indian Institute of
Technology Indore.
If we turn our attention to DSH, which is, in fact, owned by EADH and also
subvened by ADHO, we see that all top level management roles of DSH (editor-in-
chief, associate editors, and reviews editor) are filled by people based in
Europe.
It’s important that our journals look to broaden the range of voices and
perspectives that are being published. I’m pleased to see DHQ recognizing where
it may fall short and making the effort to correct this.
Best,
Brian
--
Brian Croxall | Assistant Research Professor | Office of Digital Humanities |
Brigham Young University
From: Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 10:28 PM
To: Brian Croxall <brian.croxall@byu.edu>
Subject: [Humanist] 36.67: multiculturalism and Digital Humanities Quarterly
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 36, No. 67.
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Date: 2022-06-14 07:51:11+00:00
From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: multiculturalism and Digital Humanities Quarterly
hi,
I went browsing through the DHQ website, under "dhq people":
all the top level management roles (DHQ editors and Managing
Editors) are filled by people based in North America.
now, DHQ is an international journal (owned by EADH and offered
to the worldwide DH community through ADHO), dealing with
culturally sensitive topics, where different countries and
cultures understand differently the role of the scholar, the
important issues, the appropriate methodology for studying a
topic, etc.
an all-North American management cannot appropriately
understand, comprehend, recognize, foster, cultural perspectives
that are varied and different from North American ones: because
it does not live them, does not practice them, does not know
them, doesn't discuss them or fight for them in its own
scientific context. an all-North American management structure
that presumed to be able to do so would be an expression of a
neo-colonial stance ("rest assured that we understand you") that
by the way hinders ADHO's efforts toward multicultural and
multilingual openness to which the Standing Committee on
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism that exists in ADHO from a
decade or so should bear witness.
so the recruitment for new editorial positions for a Peer
Reviews Editor, a Communications and Outreach Editor, a Data
Analytics Editor, and a Collaborative Development Editor could
be a little step towards the way of mixing the cultures - if all
those position were requested by, and given to, not-North
American people.
but the control room (DHQ
editors and Managing Editors) where the
relevant decisions are made remains entirely North American. and
this _is_ a problem in a multicultural context.
Maurizio
Il 14/06/22 06:23, Flanders, Julia
<j.flanders@northeastern.edu> in Humanist ha scritto:
DHQ is embarking on an exciting new phase of editorial development and is
continuing its recruitment of new editorial positions in summer 2022 with four
calls for participation for a Peer Reviews Editor, a Communications and Outreach
Editor, a Data Analytics Editor, and a Collaborative Development Editor. Please
see the detailed call for each position on our website:
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/announcements/index.html
If you are interested in volunteering for one of these positions, please submit
a one-page statement by June 24, 2022 describing your interest in the position
and your vision for how you would contribute to DHQ’s mission, along with a copy
of your CV. We are especially interested in recruiting a diverse editorial team,
and in candidates who can contribute a global perspective on the DH field.
Statements and CVs can be uploaded via Google form. We’ll be interviewing
candidates via Zoom, and we expect to start orientation for this and the other
new editorial positions in late summer.
Please circulate to any interested colleagues or feel free to nominate anyone
you think we should know about!
Maurizio Lana
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Università del Piemonte Orientale
piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli
tel. +39 347 7370925
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Date: 2022-06-15 09:16:33+00:00
From: Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.67: multiculturalism and Digital Humanities Quarterly
Dear all,
I am grateful to Maurizio for sharing his important concerns.
As a journal editor and as someone who's participated in publishing
projects over the years I know it's not necessarily easy to get
international diversity in editorial boards. The elephant in the room
continues to be the volunteer nature of the roles. Time difference is
another big factor, along other significant differences, in great part
having to do with working conditions (time!). As long as our scholarly
communications projects, including journals, depend on volunteer labour
(under the non-universal rubric of "academic service"), successful, ethical
diversity in editorial boards (and specifically in the teams that actually
perform the labour of not just editing but publishing and disseminating the
outputs) remains a distant ideal.
Needless to say, international diversity in editorial boards (i.e, beyond
tokenism) is not impossible. It's essential, but it remains hard to get
right in practice. In terms of the labour expected from academics in
international projects, we have mostly been operating under a misguided
notion that academic systems around the world share the same working
conditions (and that therefore academics around the world have similar
living conditions). Volunteer positions can, no doubt, be beneficial for
the volunteer, if they are fortunate enough to be able to take them and
perform them, but they might require a personal (and often professional)
sacrifice that is not often equally rewarded in practical terms. Reputation
and collegiality alone do not pay the rent. As we wrote elsewhere:
[S]cholarly publishing should not have to rely on the good will and
> volunteer labour of colleagues. This way of doing things is not inclusive
> as it assumes the privilege not just of expertise and esteem but of time
> and appropriate conditions, both at a premium in today’s academia. We are
> concerned it is not and has never been a sustainable way of doing things,
> and as most of us have juggled many more responsibilities during the
> pandemic, this concern has been intensified. On the one hand higher
> education depends on the quantity and quality of peer-reviewed publications
> (so much depends on it: employment and professional development
> opportunities, career progression, funding, rankings, student fees), but
> expects the labour required to make research publishing and assessment
> possible to be performed by academics mostly voluntarily and without
> sufficient recognition and reward. This is incongruent and continues to be
> the source of much toxicity and exclusion (Dunley, Priego, & Wilkins, 2020
> <https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.227>).
>
Academic diversity requires not only an acknowledgement of linguistic,
cultural, ethnic, national diversity ('multiculturalism'), and the
corresponding epistemological diversity that would entail. It would also
require an acknowledgement of differences in academic systems and working
conditions around the world (conditions of academic production, which
include how that production is defined and assessed) and of the practical
deterrants for 'Others' to actively participate under the mainstream,
accepted ways of doing academe.
DHQ is not alone in their wish to expand and renew their editorial team and
in facing the challenges that entails. I wish them the best of luck in
their search. Hopefully the sharing of international perspectives can
contribute to greater awareness of the importance to diversify and of the
practicalities we need to collectively work on in order to make that a
reality. The challlenges are structural, and tackling them requires a
collective effort from all.
All the best
Ernesto
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Date: 2022-06-15 19:14:20+00:00
From: Tanya E. Clement <tclement@utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.67: multiculturalism and Digital Humanities Quarterly
Just to clarify for what will likely be a complex and exciting conversation
about multiculturalism and DHQ: DHQ receives 50% of its funding from ACH,
and 50% from ADHO. Granted, ADHO gets funding from EADH constituents but
DHQ is mostly sponsored by ACH, not EADH.
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Date: 2022-06-15 09:38:59+00:00
From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: apologies for a stupid mismatch
hi,
i wrote about DHQ as if it was DSH.
i apologize for the mismatch
Maurizio
Maurizio Lana
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Università del Piemonte Orientale
piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli
tel. +39 347 7370925
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