Additional resources
We have put together a collection of resources that may be helpful in guiding your efforts to provide better contextualisation in your teaching and more inclusive practices in your research.
Articles
On the importance of acknowledging different forms of knowledges (outside of Western science/academia)
Stone & Glover. 2017. Disembedding grain: Golden Rice, the Green Revolution, and heirloom seeds in the Philippines. Agriculture and Human Values 34: 87–102
Joshi, Sankaran & Ratnam. 2018. ‘Foresting’ the grassland: historical management legacies in forest-grassland mosaics in southern India, and lessons for the conservation of tropical grassy biomes. Biological Conservation 224: 144-152
Malik, Ziermann & Diogo. 2018. An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin’s time. Journal of Biological Education 53(1):3-17
Hill et al. 2020. Working with Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 43:8-20
Lam et al. 2020. Indigenous and local knowledge in sustainability transformations research: a literature review. Ecology and Society 25(1):3.
Wehi et al. 2021. Transforming Antarctic management and policy with an Indigenous Māori lens. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5:1055-1059
On the prevalence of racism, sexism, and colonialism in science/EEB
Graves. 2019. African Americans in Evolutionary Biology: where we have been, and what's next. Evolution: Education and Outreach 12:18
Sheth. 2019. Grappling with racism as foundational practice of science teaching. Science Education 103: 37-60.
Wynn-Grant. 2019. On scientific reporting and racial history. Science 365(6459), 1256-1257.
Hong. 2020. Angel in the House, Angel in the Scientific Empire: Women and colonial botany during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Notes and Records 75(3)
Lee. 2020. Diversity and inclusion activisms in animal behaviour and the ABS - a historical view from the USA. Animal Behaviour 164: 273-280
O'Brien, Bart & Garcia. 2020. Why are there so few ethnic minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology? Challenges to inclusion and the role of sense of belonging. Social Psychology of Education 23:449-477
On future steps to take for specific fields
Das & Lowe. 2018. Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections. Journal of Natural Science Collections 6:4-14
Baker, Eichhorn & Griffiths. 2019. Decolonising field ecology. Biotropica 51: 288-292
Istratii & Lewis. 2019. Applying a Decolonial Lens to Research Structures, Norms and Practices in Higher Education Institutions. Conversation Event Report SOAS University of London, 18th September 2019
Chaudhury & Colla. 2020. Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science. Conservation Letters e12774
Eichhorn, Baker & Griffiths 2020 Steps towards decolonising biogeography. Frontiers of Biogeography 12(1): e44795
Zavaleta, Beltran & Borker. 2020. How Field Courses Propel Inclusion and Collective Excellence. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35(11):953-956
Armenteras. 2021. Guidelines for healthy global scientific collaborations. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5:1193-1194
Cronin et al. 2021. Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5:1213-1223
Handsley-Davis et al. 2021. Researchers using environmental DNA must engage ethically with Indigenous communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5:146-148
Trisos, Auerbach & Katti. 2021. Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5:1205-1212
Kashwan et al. 2021. From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63(4):4-19
Books
Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for conservation in a postcolonial era. William M. Adams and Martin Mulligan (Eds.) 2003.
Braiding Sweetgrass. Robin Wall Kimmerer. 2013.
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation. Juno Salazar Parreñas. 2018
Decolonising the University. Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, and Kerem Nişancıoğlu (Eds.) 2018.
Superior: The Return of Race Science. Angela Saini 2019.
Blog articles
Decolonise science – time to end another imperial era by Rohan Roy in The Conversation
Biopiracy: when indigenous knowledge is patented for profit by Janna Rose in The Conversation
Understanding our eugenic past to take steps towards scientific accountability on Genes to Genome, a blog from the Genetics Society of America
Decolonizing Histories of Genetics?: An interview with M. Susan Lindee and Warwick Anderson, co-editors of HSNS‘s new special issue, “Pacific Biologies: How Humans Become Genetic“, on the University of California Press blog
Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer by Ewan Birney, Jennifer Raff, Adam Rutherford, & Aylwyn Scally
A brief history of African Americans in evolutionary biology and why that is the case in the Molecular Ecologist
Decolonizing Ecology in the Briar Patch Magazine
It's Time to Make Conservation Labour Visible Again by Siddhartha Krishnan and Rinzi Lama in The Wire
Collecting with Lao Chao [Zhao Chengzhang]: Decolonising the Collecting Trips of George Forrest by Yvette Harvey in the Natural Sciences Collections Association
Working to Restore Bird Habitat, I Carry On Traditions That Were Meant to Be Erased by Bradford Kasberg in the Audubon
The Idea of Arid Lands as ‘Wastelands’ Comes Mostly From Colonial Assumptions by Diana Davis in The Wire
A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection in The Vice
Change Species Names to Honor Indigenous Peoples, Not Colonizers, Researchers Say in the Scientific American
Inside the Movement to Abolish Colonialist Bird Names in the Outsize magazine
Example lesson plans/Teaching resources
Twitter thread on ‘Intro to Genetics’ course taught by Gina Baucom at University of Michigan. The thread contains lots of other materials and suggestions.
Example lesson plan on ‘Genetics, History, and the American Eugenics Movement’ by the Personal Genetics Education Project
Decolonizing Conservation Reading List by Sara Cannon
Webinar/video resources
Webinar on Decolonising research: strategies from a feminist perspective by Dr Michelle Lokot. She explains clearly and concisely what coloniality is and how it still exists in everyday and research contexts, and provides some suggestions on how to practice decolonial ethics in research.