http://shot2016.thatcamp.org/2016/06/15/decolonial-pedagogy-in-sts/ Just another THATCamp site Mon, 20 Jun 2016 02:25:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 http://shot2016.thatcamp.org/2016/06/15/decolonial-pedagogy-in-sts/#comment-4 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:22:03 +0000 http://shot2016.thatcamp.org/?p=156#comment-4 Great topic. Decolonizing either metaphorically, as in the way large corporations continue to colonize our daily lives, or literally, as in the colonial legacies still impacting us, does indeed require the synthesis of theory and practice you quote from Freire. But the hot spots for that intersection are mostly limited to the relatively small “social construction of ignorance” literature: how the pseudoscience showing the safety of pesticides, the racist myth of white superiority, the security of nuclear technology, etc. was promoted. STS more generally offers too little for distinctions between science and pseudoscience; let alone a positive vision for counter-hegemonic science. A decolonizing approach needs to take that issue head-on; re-imagining what STS could be, and refusing to be ghettoized to a paltry corner of “relevant examples”.

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