The workshop on Decolonizing Geoscience allowed an insightful discussion on the opportunities and challenges in the global North-South collaborations. Speakers Robyn Pickering and Chinwe Ifejika Sperenza recommended books, websites, and podcasts to learn more about the history of our research field and the privileges that some enjoy.
Books and articles:
- Rogers, S. L., Lau, L., Dowey, N., Sheikh, H., & Williams, R. (2022). Geology uprooted! Decolonising the curriculum for geologists. Geoscience Communication, 5(3), 189-204. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-189-2022
- Pickering, R., Ervens, B., Jesus-Rydin, C., et al. (2023). How language can be a path away from neo-colonialism in geoscience. Nature Geoscience, 16(12), 1071-1072. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01337-6
- Lerner, G. A., Williams, G. T., Meredith, E. S., Jenkins, S. F., & Barclay, J. (2023). How inclusive is volcanology? Insights from global bibliometric analyses. Volcanica, 6(1), 77-94. https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.06.01.7794
- Ackermann, R., Athreya, S., Black, W., Humphreys, R., Pickering, R., Sahle, Y., & Schroeder, L. (2018). Paleoanthropology: Decolonizing and Building for the Future. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2549
- Christa Kuljian (2016). Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins.
- Robin DiAngelo (2018). White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.
- Kathy Obear (2017). … But I’m NOT Racist!: Tools for Weel-Meaning Whites.