{"id":3827,"date":"2019-06-21T05:21:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:25:13","slug":"resource-of-the-week-decolonising-stem-reading-list-from-dr-chanda-prescod-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2019\/06\/21\/resource-of-the-week-decolonising-stem-reading-list-from-dr-chanda-prescod-weinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: Decolonising STEM Reading List from Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3828\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chanda\/decolonising-science-reading-list-339fb773d51f#.x0dvzakgw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3828\" class=\" wp-image-3828 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Capture-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of website; follow links for full text\" width=\"334\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Capture-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Capture-4.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of Decolonizing STEM Reading List from Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In recognition of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nationalindigenouspeoplesday?src=hash\">#NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay<\/a>, we\u2019re sharing this <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chanda\/decolonising-science-reading-list-339fb773d51f#.x0dvzakgw\">Decolonising STEM Reading List<\/a> from theoretical physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cprescodweinstein.com\/\">Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein<\/a>\u00a0provides a powerful, necessary deep-look into the history and current practices of science and the relationship of science to oppression, colonialism, and more. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein recommends starting your reading with <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chanda\/making-meaning-of-decolonising-35f1b5162509#.syyyafwcv\">\u201cMaking Meaning of \u2018Decolonizing'\u201d<\/a> to fully understand the context in which she situates her list.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is an American cosmologist, science writer and equality activist based at the University of New Hampshire. In addition to major work with NASA, FQXI and more, she maintains a valuable <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chanda\/decolonising-science-reading-list-339fb773d51f#.x0dvzakgw\">Decolonising Science Reading List<\/a>, which we will also post as a separate resource in this series.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay, we\u2019re sharing this Decolonising STEM Reading List from theoretical physicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein\u00a0provides a powerful, necessary deep-look into the history and current practices of science and the relationship of science to oppression, colonialism, and more. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein recommends starting your reading with \u201cMaking Meaning of \u2018Decolonizing&#8217;\u201d to fully understand the context in which she situates her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,15,16],"tags":[26,36,43,53,65,81,86,87,113,114,115,117,120,148,149],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inclusive-scicomm","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","tag-decolonizingstem","tag-inclusivescicomm","tag-advancing-science-communication","tag-blog-post","tag-diversity","tag-handy-links","tag-inclusive-scicomm","tag-inspiration","tag-resource","tag-resource-of-the-week","tag-resources-2","tag-scicomm","tag-scicomm-by-scientists","tag-tips","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}