Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
While COVID-19 has brought conversations about accessibility to the forefront, many of these echo decades-old calls for change from BIPOC, queer, and disabled scholars. How can we use this moment of heightened visibility and urgency to produce a more inclusive field without ignoring the legacies of anti-racist and radical archaeologies? Like The Decameron, this session follows a group of scholars sharing their experiences and research. But rather than providing a distraction, we seek to revolutionize our field for the future. How can we adapt our methods, goals, and discourse to be inclusive to those outside academia? How can an anti-racist pedagogy result in a more diverse and inclusive field? How does the discourse of existing collections inhibit their accessibility today? How can we make the field more accessible to disabled archaeologists in the field, the lab, and the academy?
Other Keywords
Accessibility •
Collections •
Fieldwork •
digital archaeology •
Open Source •
Reflexivity •
Disability Studies •
inclusivity •
global pandemic
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Accessiblity and Crisis: Building a More Inclusive Archaeology Through Existing Collections (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology is facing several significant challenges at present. As it seeks to grapple with the legacy of its past, it requires new approaches and methodologies to remain viable, inclusive, and accessible. One of the ways we might accomplish this is through the use of novel research with...
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Archaeology and Abelism : Using Disability Scholarship to Rethink Archaeological Fieldwork (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Even prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, archaeological fieldwork presented many barriers to access, including financial, institutional, and physical. In this paper I focus on the inherently ableist nature of archaeological fieldwork, which is caused and compounded by the mythology of the rugged...
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Digitizing Archaeological Research: Embracing the Virtual Accessibility of Knowledge Amid a Global Pandemic (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Discussions concerning accessibility to publications and data have encouraged many within the archaeological community to consider the potential that digital technologies have in supporting a more inclusive field. The current global pandemic has only accentuated the relevance--or rather, the...