Reimagining the Politics of Citation Through Critical Curation

ABSTRACT

This paper examines citational politics as a site through which erasure and silencing are reproduced in academic publishing. Bringing together insights from art curation and geography, it reimagines academic citation as a form of critical curation that fosters more deliberate, generous and grounded citational practice. To this end, the paper outlines six curatorial principles for reorienting approaches to citation and offers role‐specific prompts for authors, reviewers, editors and editorial boards. The result is a framework for advancing ethical citation in ways that support more accountable and rigorous scholarship across publishing and educational contexts.