EDI in Scottish Heritage

该奖学金提供了一个独特的机会，可以与苏格兰一些最大和最有影响力的遗产组织就一个主题进行接触，这个主题在公众关于遗产的讨论中有很高的知名度，但在部门的劳动力中几乎看不见。最近，公众参与了黑人生命也是运动，这迫使我们中的许多人以更有意义的方式考虑种族问题。这往往是次要的，因为讨论令人不舒服，相关问题的术语和表述有时也不熟悉，但这是一个不能再忽视或忽视的现实。如果我们不能正视我们面临的问题，我们将对我们生活的社区造成持久的伤害。关于我们所生活的社会的基础、我们选择纪念的人以及为什么；以及我们可以做些什么，人们提出了严肃和有问题的问题。我们不能改变过去，但我们可以改变我们对过去的理解，以及我们选择庆祝、纪念、甚至简单地承认过去的哪些方面。这远远超越了种族，因为它还与性别和阶级问题交叉，并提出了更多令人不安的问题，即我们认为在苏格兰背景下的遗产是什么？我们是否把中世纪的历史放在首位，以城堡、国王和王后为荣，而忽视了煤矿的工业景观和遗产？为什么我们仍然觉得有必要纪念亨利·邓达斯的雕像，他的渐进主义运动支持废除奴隶制，使他在西印度群岛的同事们在面对这种变化时能够支撑自己的财务状况？遗产行业在什么时候会完全承认大西洋彼岸的苏格兰奴隶制的遗产，或者是塑造了工业革命的苏格兰工人阶级地区的遗产？该奖学金将通过与参与苏格兰遗产决策的一些关键组织接触，从内到外开展工作。

The fellowship offers a unique opportunity to engage with some of Scotland's largest and most influential heritage organisations on a topic with heightened visibility in public discourse about heritage, but near invisibility in sector's workforce. The recent public engagement with the Black Lives Matter movement has forced many of us to consider race in a more meaningful way. Too often this is side-lined because the discussions are uncomfortable and at times the terminology and expression of related issues is unfamiliar, but it is a reality that cannot be ignored or overlooked any more. If we fail to confront the issues facing us, we will do lasting disservice to the communities in which we live. Serious and problematic questions have been asked about the foundations of the society we live in; the people we choose to commemorate and why; and what we can do. We cannot change the past, but we can change our understanding of the past and what aspects of that past we choose to celebrate, commemorate, or even simply acknowledge. This goes far beyond race as it intersects also with issues of gender and class and asks further uncomfortable questions about what we perceive to be heritage in the Scottish context? Do we prioritise the medieval past, glorying in castles, kings and queens, while ignoring the industrial landscape and heritage of coalmines? Why do we still feel it necessary to remember Henry Dundas with a statue, an individual whose 'gradualist' move towards support for the abolition of slavery enabled his colleagues in the West Indies to shore up their financial position in the face of such change? At what point will the Heritage industry acknowledge fully the legacy of trans-Atlantic slavery in Scotland; or the working-class areas of Scotland that shaped the Industrial Revolution? This fellowship will work from the inside out by engaging with some of the key organisations involved in decision making about heritage in Scotland.