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Decolonize Astronomy


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2019 Feb 23, 4:22pm   426 views  0 comments

by MisdemeanorRebel   ➕follow (12)   💰tip   ignore  

In April, 2015, one of the most visible topics of discussion in the Astronomy community was the planned Thirty Meter Telescope and protests against it from Native Hawaiians who didn’t want it built on Mauna Kea. I wrote a lot about this on social media, spending some significant time trying to contextualize the debate. This reading list was originally created in response to requests for where I was getting some of the information from. A lot of people asked me about what I’d been reading as reference points for my commentary on the relationship between colonialism and what we usually call “modern science.”

https://medium.com/@chanda/decolonising-science-reading-list-339fb773d51f

TL;DR: Because a telescope was built on a Hawaiian Volcano, all the native Hawaiian Welfare Bums get the credit for all discoveries.
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