Additional Information

Language

English

Source Type

Book

Notes

In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.

Taxonomies

RPA Codes & Standards

• Archaeologist's Responsibility to Employers and Clients
• Archaeologist's Responsibility to the Public
• Integrity of Research Methodology

CIfA Codes

• Principle 2: Responsibility for the conservation of the historic environment
• Principle 3: Responsibility for acquiring and recording reliable information of the past in archaeological research

Keywords & Terms

• Equity and Representation; Discrimination and Harassment
• General Archaeological Ethics
• Impact on Communities - Local, Descendant, etc.
• Integrity of Research Methodology and Field Procedures
• Museum, Collection, Curation and Display Standards
• Public Interest, Collaboration, Education, and Outreach
• Repatriation
• Respect for and Responsibility to Affected Groups
• Stewardship

Topics & Issues

• Archaeological Ethics - Other
• BLM (Black Lives Matter Movement)
• Decolonizing Archaeology
• Descendant, Resident, and Stakeholder Communities
• Equity, Representation, and Diversity
• Ethical Responsibilities of Archaeologists
• Ethnography
• Feminism and Intersectionality
• Heritage Erasure
• Historical Archaeology
• Human Remains and Ethical Practice
• Human Rights and Social and Economic Inequalities
• Interdisciplinary Research
• Interpreting the Past
• Landscape Issues, Archaeology, and Ethics
• Race in Archaeology
• Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, and Other Forms of Discrimination