Hi Alex and Ernesto,
Thanks! That was my precisely my thought (especially that it would relate 'Other' with 'Non-English' which seemed a really really dangerous idea).
I'll thank the person for the idea but explain how it may be construed as even more divisive and problematic.
Thanks for your thoughts!
-James
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Alex Gil <colibri.alex@gmail.com<mailto:colibri.alex@gmail.com>> wrote:<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)>. I know
Hi all,
Sorry for not jumping in earlier. I've been ill and slower
than usual.
James, creating a category for Other that only has
Non-English entries is NOT-A-Good-Idea. Take a moment to
think about this equation, Other=Non-English, then think
about the subjectivities following on the heels of Edward
Said's Orientalism
this is difficult, but you are moving in the right direction!
I salute your effort to create a space for 'positive
discrimination,' or affirmative action as the USeans call it.
Since the awards would lose what makes them unique unless
voting was 100% volunteer, may I suggest simply continuing
the work of advocacy and encouragement behind the scenes.
Just do not make any distinction in the categories. Use the
other category as Dan suggests, to make sure the community
surprises us. We will help you here at GO:DH to reach larger
audiences whose main vehicle of digital expression is not
English.
Let me be clear. If you make sure to advocate for a
kaleidoscopic and babylonian ecosystem of digital humanities,
and show awareness that English models on offer are NOT
universal or representative of the rest of us, I'll be on
your side if you receive any ill will.
Your great admirer,
Alex.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:17 AM, James Cummings
<James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk<mailto:James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk><mailto:James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi GO::DH,
Me again! Sorry. After summarising the suggestions
received here I received a suggestion through other means
that I'd like to run by you since it does feed into the
desire to encourage non-anglo DH resources to nominate
themselves for DH Awards.
As you'll remember some didn't like the annual nature of
the awards without a catch-all category of 'other' and
some didn't like the non-English category because of a
perceived ghettoisation of non-English resources. I
resisted the 'other' category for two reasons (1: a
*large* category for admin and voters; 2: difficulty of
comparison for voters).
The suggestion was made to me that there be an 'Other'
category for anything that didn't fit into the other
categories, but that nominations in this category be
restricted to non-English resources (that didn't fit into
any of the other categories and the nominations committee
try to move things nominated here to other categories if
suitable). The idea behind this suggestion, I believe, is
that English resources don't get the benefit of the
'other' category and miss out as previously described,
but non-English resources do not. This would be a form of
so-called 'positive discrimination' based on the
assumption that anglo resources have more than enough
innate privileges.
For my part, I found the idea clever but I worry about
any form of discrimination (positive or not), and also
couldn't think of a way to name it which didn't seem to
repeat the perceived ghettoisation that people have seen
in this year's category. While I don't think
anglo-created resources would suffer unduly because of
this, it still seems a bit unfair.
-James
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