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Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil
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 Mexi...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8889171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35291323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210898 |
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author | Cisneros, Juan Carlos Raja, Nussaïbah B. Ghilardi, Aline M. Dunne, Emma M. Pinheiro, Felipe L. Regalado Fernández, Omar Rafael Sales, Marcos A. F. Rodríguez-de la Rosa, Rubén A. Miranda-Martínez, Adriana Y. González-Mora, Sergio Bantim, Renan A. M. de Lima, Flaviana J. Pardo, Jason D. |
author_facet | Cisneros, Juan Carlos Raja, Nussaïbah B. Ghilardi, Aline M. Dunne, Emma M. Pinheiro, Felipe L. Regalado Fernández, Omar Rafael Sales, Marcos A. F. Rodríguez-de la Rosa, Rubén A. Miranda-Martínez, Adriana Y. González-Mora, Sergio Bantim, Renan A. M. de Lima, Flaviana J. Pardo, Jason D. |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-88891712022-03-14 Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil Cisneros, Juan Carlos Raja, Nussaïbah B. Ghilardi, Aline M. Dunne, Emma M. Pinheiro, Felipe L. Regalado Fernández, Omar Rafael Sales, Marcos A. F. Rodríguez-de la Rosa, Rubén A. Miranda-Martínez, Adriana Y. González-Mora, Sergio Bantim, Renan A. M. de Lima, Flaviana J. Pardo, Jason D. R Soc Open Sci Science, Society and Policy 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. The Royal Society 2022-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8889171/ /pubmed/35291323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210898 Text en © 2022 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Science, Society and Policy Cisneros, Juan Carlos Raja, Nussaïbah B. Ghilardi, Aline M. Dunne, Emma M. Pinheiro, Felipe L. Regalado Fernández, Omar Rafael Sales, Marcos A. F. Rodríguez-de la Rosa, Rubén A. Miranda-Martínez, Adriana Y. González-Mora, Sergio Bantim, Renan A. M. de Lima, Flaviana J. Pardo, Jason D. Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil |
title | Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil |
title_full | Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil |
title_fullStr | Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil |
title_short | Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil |
title_sort | digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day mexico and brazil |
topic | Science, Society and Policy |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8889171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35291323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210898 |
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