About this Event
In the West, science is often used as a tool of justification to legitimize cruelty as an act of inquiry, medicine, and development. It has historically marginalized BIPOC, queer, disabled people, and women.
Despite recent progressive efforts to increase the inclusion of minorities and Global South countries in the field, the narrative dominating the scientific world remains predominantly Western. It aligns with a singular knowledge system that denigrates all other ways of knowing as myth and primitive. In doing so, it erases entire histories of being in the natural world.
Communities that have suffered under colonialism face not only land dispossession but also knowledge dispossession due to academic inflexibility. Without support, pre-colonial scientific knowledge cannot be recovered or continued.
Unequal colonial relations are also evident in global cooperative ecological organizations, which are seemingly designed to address transnational conflicts but more often than not advance Western objectives and sideline Indigenous epistemologies.
Now, more than ever, a science that is pluriversal, reflexive, and ecologically responsible is needed to address the current state of the world.
This session offers possible guidelines on how to unlearn colonial/capitalist science and learn as well as practice anti-colonial/decolonial science, both outside and inside the lab.
This event is part of the AntiUniversity annual festival.
Event venue & nearby stays
SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, United Kingdom
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