Content for this guide was based on our readings and understandings of these resources. If you would like to suggest any additional resources, please contact Jocelyne at jocelyne[dot]sze[at]gmail[dot]com.
Bhambra et al. (eds.) (2018) - Decolonising the University (open access)
Tuhiwai Smith (2021) - Decolonizing Methodologies: research and Indigenous peoples (3rd ed.)
The Uprising (2020) - A music documentary about resistance to racism in Europe
Webinar by Michelle Lokot (2021) - Decolonising research: strategies from a feminist perspective
Tuck and Yang (2012) - Decolonization is not a metaphor
de Leeuw and Hunt (2018) - Unsettling decolonizing geographies (open access)
Eichhorn et al. (2020) - Steps towards decolonising biogeography (open access)
Trisos et al. (2021) - Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology (open access)
Gram-Hanssen et al. (2021) - Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’ (open access)
Roy (2018) - Decolonise science – time to end another imperial era (article in The Conversation)
Adebisi (2019) - ‘Decolonisation’ and the University of Bristol (blogpost)
Ndege and Onyango (2021) - How do we ‘decolonise’ research methodologies? (blogpost)
Chaudhury and Colla (2020) - Next steps in dismantling discrimination- Lessons from ecology and conservation science (open access)
Cronin et al. (2022) - Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments (not open access, but available through TUoS or alternative means)
Kashwan et al. (2021) - From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation (not open access, but available through TUoS or alternative means)
Haelewaters et al. (2021) - Ten simple rules for Global North researchers to stop perpetuating helicopter research in the Global South (open access)
Reidpath and Allotey (2019) - The problem of ‘trickle-down science’ from the Global North to the Global South (open access)
Campbell, D. (2010) Discourse. in. Gregory, D., Johnston, R., Pratt, G., Watts, M.J. and Watts, S. (eds). The Dictionary of Human Geography. 5th edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Nagar, R. (2010). South, the. in. Gregory, D., Johnston, R., Pratt, G., Watts, M.J. and Watts, S. (eds). The Dictionary of Human Geography. 5th edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Other useful/interesting resources
Decolonising science reading list by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Reflections on Decolonizing the PhD at the University of Calgary (video recordings)
Demery and Pipkin (2020) - Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions
Baker et al. (2019) - Decolonising field ecology (open access)
Costandius et al. (2018) - #FeesMustFall and Decolonising Curriculum: Stellenbosch University students’ and lecturers’ reactions
Kothari et al. (2014) - Buen Vivir, Degrowth And Ecological Swaraj: Alternatives to sustainable development and the Green Economy (open access)
Mbembe (2016) - Decolonizing the University: New directions
Archer et al. (2022) - Towards fairer conservation: Perspectives and ideas from early career researchers (open access)
Davis and Todd (2017) - On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene (open access)
Griffiths (2017) - From heterogeneous worlds: western privilege, class and positionality in the South
Harris (2021) - Notes on reflexivity and positionality in fieldwork (not open access but available on Research Gate)
Moosavi (2020) - The decolonial bandwagon and the dangers of intellectual decolonisation (not open access but accepted version available)
Ricker (2017) - Reflexivity, positionality and rigor in the context of big data research, in Thinking Big Data in Geography: New Regimes, New Research, J. Thatcher, A. Shears, and J. Eckert, Eds. University of Iowa Press, 2017, pp. 96–118.
Stocks et al. (2008) - The Geographical and Institutional Distribution of Ecological Research in the Tropics (not open access but available on request on Research Gate)
Hirschfield et al. (2023) - Avoid the reproduction of coloniality in decolonial studies in ecology
Millora et al. (2020) - Reflecting on the ethics of PhD research in the Global South: reciproxity, reflexivity and situatedness
CLEAR lab's resources on what practicing anti-colonial science means and how they do it; see also Liboiron (2021)'s Pollution is Colonialism.
Shen et al. (2023) - Sensing inequity: technological solutionism, biodiversity conservation, and environmental DNA
Mohammed et al. (2022) - Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists (not open access but accepted version available on Research Gate)
Nature Career Q & A article: How I apply Indigenous wisdom to Western science and nurture Native American students
Joslynn Lee’s Indigenous heritage shapes her research and how she mentors the next generation of biochemists.