Listening to Other Voices: Culturally Sensitive Sites Group

LÓPEZ, ALEJANDRO MARTÍN; MEJUTO, JAVIER; LEE, ANNETTE S.; HOLBROOK, JARITA; GULLBERG, STEVEN R.

Tokio

Congreso; Communicating Astronomy with the Public 'In the Age of Global Crises' Conference; 2021

NAOJ, Office for Astronomy Outreach, International Astronomical Union

We present a new initiative, jointly with the IAU Division C Working Group on Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), and the American Astronomical Society (AAS), committed to tackling problems related to sensitive astronomical sites. The Culturally Sensitive Sites group intends to apply everything we have learned in many decades of cultural astronomy studies, so that the astronomical community better understands the conceptions, values, political tensions, and cultural interests among other things at stake when seeking to install and maintain astronomical facilities