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Cultural Competency 2

My Cultural Competency Journey / An Italian perspective of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections and services in GLAM

My cultural competency journey started in 2010, when I moved from Italy to Australia to study and work in the field of First Nations physical and digital archives[1]. At that time, I had just completed my studies in Arts and Humanities and Cultural Anthropology and I was confident in engaging with archival collections. I had […]

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Free Prior Informed Consent

‘Archival Consent’, Affirmative Consent and Free, Prior and Informed Consent

In the Los Angeles Archivists Collective article ‘Archival Consent‘, Julie Botnick raises issues of ownership, consent, and agency in relation to institutionally held collections and collection-based decisions. She suggests revising traditional power structures that favour the institution and management roles by reframing collection related question to be based upon consent. Her example is rather than

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