Week Five – New Habits Die Hard.

Well at least I’m in the habit of missing the habitual deadline!

I’m in the process of essay planning and getting everything together so I’ve been total spent of energy to reflect on the last week.

Now there’s been lots of thoughts about Decolonisation of Spaces, Museums etc. Part of me still thinks that this wouldn’t all feel so draining if the language that is used by these theorists wasn’t so uptight and overcomplicated. They wouldn’t need to iterate their point so often if the line were a little more direct. How about we “decolonise” the language of academia and make it more accessible. Losing the stuffy traditionalist methods might bring in a wider range of people to the subject area, which does appear to be an issue. In the meantime, I will continue to break down this language so I can digest it myself.

This is just my opinion though, a guttural response to some of the language I am presented with. We spent time looking at the board of trustees of the British Museum and Tate, they are both unsurprisingly largely White and Rich, I know, shocker!

This lack of inclusion is also mirrored in our Oral Histories project, we have a collection of Audio files from past students and tutors we are listening to. Mostly white interviewee’s, it makes me think that more of these interviews need to be recorded to show a more recent cohort of CSM. Possibly graduates from the 80’s and if we are not able to find a more racially representative reflection of British culture, maybe that needs to be addressed.

Adjö

Franki