Even with protective laws, middle- and low-income countries are at risk of being subjected to ‘scientific colonialism’
“Although colonialism is frequently described in political, social and military contexts, it is also present in many scientific practices still in use today,” scientistsin the journal Royal Society Open Science. “The development of scientific disciplines, educational programmes and academic organisations were all products designed to benefit colonial advancement, e.g. advancements in geological tools allowed colonial powers to uncover and exploit several natural resources in colonies.
The paper focuses on examples of ‘palaeontological colonialism’ from publications that discuss Jurassic-Cretaceous fossils from NE Mexico and NE Brazil from the 1990s to the 2020s. Juan Carlos Cisneros at the Federal University of Piaui in Brazil and colleagues note that they’ve identified common issues as “the absence of both fieldwork and export permit declarations and the lack of local experts among authorships.
“I think we are often seen as cute characters that wear Indiana Jones outfits, and could surely do no harm. But actually, Indiana Jones is a really good example: one of his catchphrases was ‘this belongs in a museum’ – but what he means is his museum, not a museum in the country he’s collecting the thing from.
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