Abstract
The world has changed. In early 2020, when COVID-19 spread around the globe, closing museums and universities and disrupting life as we know it, Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, like many academic and professional journals, was also affected. Of course, in a pandemic with so many lives lost, and many others exposed to illness, unemployment, and the disruption of the economy, travel, and trade, the tertiary and cultural sectors were bound to be adversely impacted as well. With the shutting of museums and galleries, university teaching going online—resulting in increased workloads for academics, the laying off or furloughing of staff, the delaying of the production of books and journals (with publishers unable to send books out), and the cancellation and/or delay of conferences and research projects—it was natural that we would also struggle to get together an issue for 2020. It was indeed a challenge compiling Museum Worlds 8 as the virus raged, but thanks to our hard-working team of editors, our generous and patient contributors, our tireless readers and peer reviewers, and the expert advice of Janine Latham and her colleagues at Berghahn, we got there. I want to thank everyone involved in this issue for their help in seeing it into print, and especially Dr. Susette Goldsmith, my editorial assistant, for being there in the final stages.
Highlights
The journal you are reading is a little on the light side, but it is a fine volume which maintains the high standards of research and academic debate, reviewing, and reporting that Museum Worlds has become recognized for
I am pleased to say that we have an excellent special section, assembled by guest editors Paula Mota Santos and Hugo DeBlock, which is made up of articles originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in 2018
Though the issue was planned before the coronavirus broke out, much of it was written, peer-reviewed, revised, and edited during early and mid-2020, when many people were working within the extraordinary restrictions imposed by lockdowns and stay-at-home orders
Summary
The journal you are reading is a little on the light side, but it is a fine volume which maintains the high standards of research and academic debate, reviewing, and reporting that Museum Worlds has become recognized for. As the introduction to this section by Santos and DeBlock describes, the articles explore “voices in the dark” through fascinating and diverse instances of what they call “museum-like practices and culturalized politics.” We would like to thank the authors for seeing this project through to completion, despite the peculiar challenges of the times we have been living through, and the guest editors for their hard work and perseverance.
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