Research, Development, and Empire: State Support of Science in the Later Spanish Empire*

Vos, Paula S. De

doi:10.1080/10609160600607432

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“…Parachute science is defined as situations in which scientists from wealthy (western) nations perform field work in a developing nation with little effort to include or train local scientific experts or share data and findings (De Vos, 2020). It is rampant in both marine science and in the broader field of ecology (Belhabib, 2021;Trisos et al, 2021).…”

Section: Ending Parachute Sciencementioning

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What Can Professional Scientific Societies Do to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Case Study of the American Elasmobranch Society

Shiffman

Álvarez²,

Bangley

et al. 2022

Front. Educ.

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Scientific professional societies are reviewing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and policies in response to recent calls for much-needed change. Organizations like scientific professional societies contribute to establishing disciplinary norms, and can influence the diversity of disciplinary workforces in multiple ways through both action and inaction. This paper examines these issues using the American Elasmobranch Society (AES), a medium-sized professional scientific society, as a case study. It consists of three parts: (1) an analysis of the demographics of AES members, leaders, and award winners; (2) an evaluation of a diversity initiative created by the society which includes a survey of program alumni focusing on potential improvements to the program; and (3) a synthesis of recommendations of steps that AES and similarly sized societies can take to better support DEI goals. AES’s membership in recent years is more than half women, but 71.5% of all leadership positions in the Society’s history (including all but two Presidents) have been held by men since the society was founded in 1983. AES’s membership has significantly fewer Black/African-American members than the United States scientific workforce overall, with just 1 member out of over 400 identifying as Black in 2019, and 86.6% of Society leadership positions have been held by white-presenting members. The Society’s diversity initiative has led to some limited professional benefits for awardees, but could benefit from additional resources and support to enact suggested expansions and improvements. We provide a series of actionable recommendations that will make the annual meetings of societies like AES, and the field of chondrichthyan science, safer and more inclusive.

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Section: Ending Parachute Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

What Can Professional Scientific Societies Do to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Case Study of the American Elasmobranch Society

Shiffman

Álvarez²,

Bangley

et al. 2022

Front. Educ.

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“…This structure of colonial science—derived from the practice of science in the colonies—has given rise to ‘scientific colonialism’ in the post-colonial world, some of whose extractive aspects are sometimes referred to as parachute science [ 4 – 7 ], helicopter research [ 8 , 9 ] or even parasitic science [ 7 ]. Within scientific colonialism, middle- and low-income countries are perceived as suppliers of data and specimens for the high-income ones, the contributions of local collaborators are devalued or omitted, and the legal frameworks in lower income countries are trivialized or even ignored [ 6 , 10 – 14 ].…”

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Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

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Scientific practices stemming from colonialism, whereby middle- and low-income countries supply data for high-income countries and the contributions of local expertise are devalued, are still prevalent today in the field of palaeontology. In response to these unjust practices, countries such as Mexico and Brazil adopted protective laws and regulations during the twentieth century to preserve their palaeontological heritage. However, scientific colonialism is still reflected in many publications describing fossil specimens recovered from these countries. Here, we present examples of ‘palaeontological colonialism’ from publications on Jurassic–Cretaceous fossils from NE Mexico and NE Brazil spanning the last three decades. Common issues that we identified in these publications are the absence of both fieldwork and export permit declarations and the lack of local experts among authorships. In Mexico, access to many fossil specimens is restricted on account of these specimens being housed in private collections, whereas a high number of studies on Brazilian fossils are based on specimens illegally reposited in foreign collections, particularly in Germany and Japan. Finally, we outline and discuss the wider academic and social impacts of these research practices, and propose exhaustive recommendations to scientists, journals, museums, research institutions and government and funding agencies in order to overcome these practices.

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Mining, geological imaginations, and the politics of subterranean knowledge in the colonial Andes

Scott

2021

Geoforum

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Research, Development, and Empire: State Support of Science in the Later Spanish Empire*

Cited by 28 publications

References 13 publications

What Can Professional Scientific Societies Do to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Case Study of the American Elasmobranch Society

What Can Professional Scientific Societies Do to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Case Study of the American Elasmobranch Society

Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

Mining, geological imaginations, and the politics of subterranean knowledge in the colonial Andes

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