Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

Cisneros, Juan Carlos; Raja, Nussaïbah B.; Ghilardi, Aline Marcele; Dunne, Emma; Pinheiro, Felipe L.; Fernández, Omar Rafael Regalado; Sales, Marcos A.F.; Rosa, Rubén A. Rodrı́guez-de la; Miranda-Martínez, Adriana Yanet; González-Mora, Sergio; Bantim, Renan Alfredo Machado; Lima, Flaviana Jorge de; Pardo, Jason D.

doi:10.1098/rsos.210898

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“…Substantial gains in knowledge of ornithology require perspectives from the diversity of people living and working within the Neotropics. We will only hear these perspectives if we drastically change academic practices and policies to propel justice, equity, and inclusion in areas such as funding, publishing, capacity building, and collaboration (Ahern-Dodson et , Haines et al 2020, Urbina-Blanco et al 2020, Trisos et al 2021, Kraus et al 2022, Cisneros et al 2022). We need to systemically address discrimination and bias rooted in the socioeconomic class system, anti-Blackness, anti-Brownness, and anti-Indigeneity, misogyny, homophobia, and ableism.…”

Section: Nithologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Neotropical Ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future

Soares¹,

Cockle²,

Inzunza³

et al. 2022

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A major barrier to advancing ornithology is the systemic exclusion of professionals from the Global South. A recent special dossier, Advances in Neotropical Ornithology, and a shortfalls analysis therein, unintentionally followed a long-standing pattern of highlighting individuals, knowledge, and views from the Global North, while largely omitting the perspectives of people based within the Neotropics. Here, we review problems with assessing the state of Neotropical ornithology through a northern lens, including discovery narratives, incomplete (and biased) understanding of history and advances, and the promotion of agendas that, while currently popular in the north, may not fit the needs and realities of Neotropical research. We argue that future advances in Neotropical ornithology will critically depend on identifying and addressing the systemic barriers that hold back ornithologists who live and work in the Neotropics: unreliable and limited funding, exclusion from international research leadership, restricted dissemination of knowledge (e.g., through language hegemony and citation bias), and logistical barriers. Moving forward, we must examine and acknowledge the colonial roots of our discipline, and explicitly promote anticolonial research, training, and conservation agendas. We invite our colleagues within and beyond the Neotropics to join us in creating a new model of governance that establishes research priorities with vigorous partici-pation of ornithologists and other stakeholders within the Neotropical region. To include a diversity of perspectives, we must systemically address discrimination and bias rooted in the socioeconomic class system, anti-Blackness, anti-Brownness, anti-Indigeneity, misogyny, homophobia, tokenism, and ableism. Instead of seeking individual excellence and rewarding top-down leadership, institutions in the North and South can promote collective leadership. Authentic collaborations should value the perspectives of those directly involved and affected by policies. In adopting these approaches, we, ornithologists, will join a community of researchers across academia building new paradigms that can reconcile our relationships and transform science.

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Section: Nithologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Neotropical Ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future

Soares¹,

Cockle²,

Inzunza³

et al. 2022

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“…It is important to recognise that these behaviours can cause hurt to those being othered and result in the breakdown of engagement, trust, and willingness to help from these parties. Cisneros et al (2022) outline additional examples of parachute and extractive science from Mexico and Brazil, as well as outlining the impacts (and excuses) of such practice. They suggest that scientists should be required to provide documentation proving the ethical and legal position of sample collection/acquisition and that journals should refuse to publish without these.…”

Section: "Parachute" Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Geology uprooted! Decolonising the curriculum for geologists

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Abstract. Geology is colonial. It has a colonial past and a colonial present. Most of the knowledge that we accept as the modern discipline of geology was founded during the height of the post-1700 European empire's colonial expansion. Knowledge is not neutral, and its creation and use can be damaging to individuals and peoples. The concept of “decolonising the curriculum” has gathered attention recently, but this concept can be misunderstood or difficult to engage with for individuals who are not familiar (or trained to work) with the literature on the issue. This paper aims to demystify decolonising the curriculum, particularly with respect to geology. We explain what decolonising the curriculum is and then outline frameworks and terminology often found in decolonising literature. We discuss how geology is based on colonised knowledge and what effects this may have. We explore how we might decolonise the subject and, most importantly, why it matters. Together, through collaborative networks, we need to decolonise geology to ensure our discipline is inclusive, accessible to all, and relevant to the grand challenges facing diverse world societies.

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“…Sampling is a global issue related to geodiversity and geoconservation and is important to all geoscientists. It is also related to much larger issues of extractive industries, as well as colonialism in the field and parachute science that can be intertwined with ethics of collecting without input or participation by local Indigenous communities (e.g., Monarrez et al, 2021;Cisneros et al, 2022;Raja et al, 2022).…”

Section: Futurementioning

confidence: 99%