Dear Domenico, dear all,

You know probably that in a federation of grassroots associations, the layers are not imposed by the highest level (which is just bringing together the federated bodies) but created by the associations themselves because of geographical/cultural/historical/personal reasons that are specific to each organization. So ADHO cannot interfere and tell its COs and AOs how to organize themselves.
But the organization itself can change at the local level: for instance, there is nothing to prevent an Associate Organization from becoming a CO. 
And the « Affiliate Organization » category is not really a layer, just a way to recognise that ADHO can have relations outside the COs/AOs if needed. 
So beyond the AOs question, who voluntarily get together as a CO, I think that the SIG question will be more critical in the future (I don't want to reopen the whole GO:DH question here).

By the way, isn't the natural expansion of the steering committee due to the arrival of new and very various COs the best way to protect the organisation against hegemony?

All the best,
Martin

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Martin GRANDJEAN
Junior Lecturer UNIL and EPFL
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On 12 Dec 2018, at 03:22, Domenico Fiormonte <domenico.fiormonte@protonmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

does anyone in this list know what has been decided (if anything) about the new ADHO governance structure, etc.?

I've checked the ADHO website, and it seems that the last documents published (and publicly shared) date back to April 2018. For example:

https://adho.org/announcements/2018/implementation-committee-proposed-sigs-associate-and-affiliate-organization

I'm finishing to write an article that involves issues of cultural-linguistic diversity and political representation in DH, so I'd be grateful if someone more involved in the procees could illuminate me.

Incidentally, I found the proposed tripartion of organizations in three layers of decreasing power a sort of neo-feudal model: CO (consitituent organizations, who put the money and take the decisions), Associate Organization ("allied to ADHO"), and Affiliate Organization ("compatible aims with ADHO").
I have no doubt that in this increasingly imperial world there are and there always will be   organizations and groups in search of "international visibility", and will accept to pay the price of subalternity. We see this everyday. However we're talking about a scholarly organization, not NATO, and a tripartion like this, if implemented, will inevitably reflects a caste system based on income (?), to say the least. I wonder what will be the final result of this process if not a reinforcement and widening of current unbalances and discriminations, and of course the perpetuation of the Anglophone hegemony within our field.

Statemi bene

Domenico

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