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Profile: A multimedia archive containing physicist's profiles and work from a global perspective, to highlight the many beautiful contributions systematically erased by eurocentric and western imperial pedagogy.
Layout: Each section is related to a field of research in Physics and has its own tab. A section is divided into sub-sections which correspond to a certain region to which the resource in the sub-section can be attributed to. For each resource there will hopefully be a short description detailing type, i.e. paper/essay/article/video etc. and further contextual information.
There is space also for non-academic work such as history, sci-fi and pop-culture in relation to narratives of Physics.
Methodology: The works in the archive must be attributable to non-white physicists. This library is a space to learn and expand our contemporary and imagined comprehension of the field in which physics is practiced. Therefore, to alleviate the current narrative of an 'objective' field, which is to say a white-valued field, means to give space to peoples that are discriminated against by the infrastructures of our institutions. Through this line of reasoning then, the value which we normally subscribe to certain research is not given much esteem, instead all research should be presented as equal. For example, the importance of Astrology in developing our current Astronomical understandings should not be undervalued by the current sentiments propagated against the field in question in this archive. We recognise that we will lose the grip along the journey as we also have much to unlearn and learn, and we still hope to do our best to maintain such standards.
Credits & Contact: Currently maintained by Adil Mian, and hoping to find like-minded people to build this little sapling into a big beautiful world tree archive. If interested e-mail me at:
ap14092@qmul.ac.uk
Profile: A multimedia archive containing physicist's profiles and work from a global perspective, to highlight the many beautiful contributions systematically erased by eurocentric and western imperial pedagogy.
Layout: Each section is related to a field of research in Physics and has its own tab. A section is divided into sub-sections which correspond to a certain region to which the resource in the sub-section can be attributed to. For each resource there will hopefully be a short description detailing type, i.e. paper/essay/article/video etc. and further contextual information.
There is space also for non-academic work such as history, sci-fi and pop-culture in relation to narratives of Physics.
Methodology: The works in the archive must be attributable to non-white physicists. This library is a space to learn and expand our contemporary and imagined comprehension of the field in which physics is practiced. Therefore, to alleviate the current narrative of an 'objective' field, which is to say a white-valued field, means to give space to peoples that are discriminated against by the infrastructures of our institutions. Through this line of reasoning then, the value which we normally subscribe to certain research is not given much esteem, instead all research should be presented as equal. For example, the importance of Astrology in developing our current Astronomical understandings should not be undervalued by the current sentiments propagated against the field in question in this archive. We recognise that we will lose the grip along the journey as we also have much to unlearn and learn, and we still hope to do our best to maintain such standards.
Credits & Contact: Currently maintained by Adil Mian, and hoping to find like-minded people to build this little sapling into a big beautiful world tree archive. If interested e-mail me at:
ap14092@qmul.ac.uk
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