Worries, Threats and a Catastrophe, Editorial - Archaeologies, Vol. 14, No. 3 - December, pp. 339-343
2018
Abstract
This journal and its sponsoring organisation, the World Archaeological Congress, are committed to diversity, multivocality, social justice and contesting local and global power geometries within the discipline of archaeology. We are also concerned for the legacies of colonialism and nationalism within the discipline and the rights and ethics relating to cultural property, issues of acquisition, custodianship, conservation, and display.
Given our specific interests in these topics, this overt statement of European 'cultural superpower' status and the plans to disseminate evidences of that power across the globe may be a very worrying development.