Theme:
1. Archaeologists and Archaeology Here and Now
Title:
Safer-Spaces Policies in Archaeological Practice [EAA ExB]
Content:
The EAA 2020 Statement on Archaeology and Gender was approved in 2021. It constitutes an important step on the path towards equality and, therefore, towards a fairer, freer and safer archaeological practice for everyone. It is the result of years of work carried out by different people, mostly women, inside and outside the EAA. Those professionals have focused on identifying and preventing the risk of harassment in archaeology and, ultimately, on its future demise.
Moreover, we think that those initiatives are the minimum to adopt a general EAA strategy against harassment, and that it is necessary to expand the field of action including functional diversity, physical appearance, ethnicity or origin, age or beliefs. In our view to transfer the Safe Space policy that is already adopted at EAA meetings to the exercise of the discipline is very relevant, especially in all the archaeological ecosystem: laboratories, classrooms, offices and archaeological sites-excavations. Safety should be also a priority since risk prevention is often insufficient or even non-existent and its lack constitutes a form of abuse towards the worker.
This session is intended to be a forum for debate how to design and implement Safer Space Policies in the archaeological field and practice. How and how far are we moving forward on preventing risk, bullying, harassment and discrimination together? What are we doing to move towards and safe, egalitarian, inclusive and diverse discipline? How to combine experiences and strategies in order to create supportive frameworks and networks for students and professionals?
Should they be comprehensive policies or should they be designed by experts and applied according to specific criteria? Should they be applied following a principle of co-responsibility or should there be roles of greater responsibility within the workspaces? What can we do from EAA to the broader field of Archaeology?
Keywords:
Sex and Gender Harassment, Acting against Harassment, Labour Risk Prevention, Safer Space Policy, Social Inclusion
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Promoted by the EAA Executive Board
Main organiser:
David Barreiro (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Ana Pastor-Pérez (Spain) 2
Sara Simões (Portugal) 3
Affiliations:
1. Institute of Heritage Sciences, Spanish National Research Council
2. Institute of Archaeology, University of Barcelona
3. UNIARQ - Centre for Archaeology, University of Lisbon
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