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Politics of Citation, Revealing Systems Of Exclusivity ​

Sal Hamerman, David Isaac Hecht, Dan Taeyoung, Charles Eppley, Sam Hart, Melanie Hoff2018

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?