[csaa-forum] Call for Papers: ‘Libraries, Archives and Museums in Oceania’ 📢

[Judith Schofield]

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Call for Papers: ‘Libraries, Archives and Museums in Oceania’

A Special Issue of the Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-new-zealand-pacific-studies#call-for-papers

Guest Edited by Joshua Bell, Cristela Garcia-Spitz and Halena
Kapuni-Reynolds

Though shaped by their colonial legacies and postcolonial presents,
libraries, archives and museums can also be spaces of hope, healing and
collective reimagining. These institutions and their staff steward various
media formats (audiovisual objects and texts), giving presence to the many
pasts of Oceania, and must reckon with Indigenous interventions that
reconfigure these collections as familial legacies, belongings and
ancestors. Collaborative work with Indigenous communities have also helped
open these institutions and their collections to new possibilities,
resulting in richer understandings about activating belongings to nurture
and uplift source and descendant communities and returning belongings and
ancestors through legal and ethical means. Simultaneously, Indigenous
communities continue creating their own cultural centres, blurring
distinctions between libraries, archives and museums to serve the needs of
their respective communities.

While these projects and trends are in dialogue with global practices, they
are also distinctly local and heterogeneous within Oceania. How are these
projects in and around libraries, archives and museums transforming these
institutions and their collections? How are Indigenous epistemologies
helping to challenge the colonial legacies of these institutions? What new
collaborative practices are emerging, which help to recentre the relations
that may have otherwise been dormant? What lessons for institutions outside
of Oceania can be taken from these engagements?

The Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies invites contributions that
offer new insights into library, archive and museum practice in and about
Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific, and associated collections from the
region that may be housed outside of Oceania. Papers might address the
following issues:

●Indigenizing and decolonizing strategies for curatorial practice,
exhibition design, collection development and management

●community-based programming and research

●repatriation and ethical returns

●rematriation initiatives

●conservation/preservation

●digitizing collections and ethical and inclusive metadata practices

●digital scholarship and pedagogy

●emerging technologies and their impact on research

●evolving roles, education/mentoring the next generation of museum/archive
professionals



We are particularly interested in case studies highlighting lesser-known
libraries, archives and museums in or of the Pacific.

The Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies is a double-blind refereed
journal. Articles, accompanied by a short biography, abstract and keywords,
must be between 5000 and 8000 words, including notes and references, and
must be formatted according to the journal style guide (
https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2243/house-style-guide-6th-edition.pdf
).

Original interviews (for example, with an artist, curator, librarian or
archivist), research reports, review essays and exhibition reviews, between
1500 and 4000 words, are also welcome.

Deadline for submissions is 14 April 2025. All article submissions will be
subject to peer review. If accepted for publication, articles will be
published in vol. 13, no. 2, December 2025. Please submit complete articles
for consideration to Heather Waldroup at waldrouphl at appstate.edu.

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