"Anti-Colonial Science" wit Dr. Max Liboiron | The Academy for Teachers

Anticolonial science questions and transforms underlying assumptions in Western science that stem from imperialism and mastery. Such assumptions are present throughout STEM, from the study of water cycles, to sample gathering, to data entry, and beyond. In this master class, we’ll identify colonial premises and explore how science can be practiced in a manner that foregrounds good land relations, humility, and gratitude.
Dr. Max Liboiron is associate professor of geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She directs the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research, which develops feminist and anti-colonial methodologies to study marine plastic pollution. Dr. Liboiron has played leading roles in the establishment of the field of Discard Studies (the social study of waste and wasting), the Global Open Science Hardware movement, and is a figure in Indigenous science and technology studies and justice-oriented science.

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Is it possible for you all to list the readings?

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I am also very interested in what the readings are.

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Thomas Sowell has been writing for half a century on topics of colonialism, migrations, cultures, race, social justice fallacies from a deep, global perspective, and should be required reading for those masquerading as intellectuals and educators for a truthful assessment. Most often, rather than being wholly bad or destructive, good or constructive, events and processes throughout history are more properly seen as trade-offs, with negative aspects balanced by some beneficial ones as well.
Conflating social justice, trans-ideology, colonialism, with the environmental catastrophe of the last 300 years of Industrial Society evades the broader view. Every human being on this planet who wears clothing, eats food, uses products that are produced thousands of miles away and transported to their locality is complicit in the degradation of the biosphere. Using electronic devices like cell phones, computers, electric vehicles all carry the burden of production utilizing materials hazardous to the environment. There is a cost to the production of any good or service used by humans for their entertainment, education, comfort, and subsistence. Growth is non-sustainable. Energy production has an ultimate cost and is not clean or free.
Blaming European imperialists and colonizers of previous centuries is like viewing slavery as a strictly Euro-American occurrence.
There are 1,000,000 net, new Homo sapiens added to this planet q 4.5 days (the population of London every 45 days). Fished-out oceans with continent-sized masses of plastic, colossal overuse of pesticide, bio-engineered mono-crops owned by only a few mega-corporations and susceptible to global fungal blight. Despeciation and deforestation are at an alarming rate with populations of insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds decreasing precipitously in most areas. Cultivated lands and prairie that look to be "natural" are actually sterile land regions devoid of the life they teemed with fifty years ago.
We already cruelly-treat, and slaughter a few billion sentient animals every year to feed fat human faces. We're speeding along with AI refinement which is being weaponized as we speak--and so as resources like fresh water aquifers, food, energy are depleted, conflict and war are a certainty--with AI and unmanned vehicle attacks greatly escalating the danger. .
So sitting in cushy offices, defining your pronouns, expounding on colonialism that led to the development of many of the creature comforts you're now enjoying---seems a bit absurd, and hypocritical. But more on that, later.