Anti-Colonial Science: A Course Journal. Vol. 1, 2022. https://ojs.library.dal.ca/acs/

Introduction

This is the first issue of Anti-Colonial Science: A course journal. Here you will find student work from the undergraduate-level university course of the same name, which I teach at the University of King’s College. I am a historian of science and technology, and the course is framed around the ways that scientific knowledge, methods, and institutions have been used to resist colonialism, from the sixteenth century to the present. King’s is located in Mi’kma’ki, the traditional and unceded land of the Mi’kmaq nation. The essays in this volume represent our class’s attempts to work through the implications of being Treaty people on this land, and the other lands to which we are responsible.

Students taking Anti-Colonial Science are asked to write two reflective essays that connect the course material to a geography and an area of science to which they are connected. Essays undergo unblind peer review by fellow students in the class, before polished versions are submitted for publication.

This course was a late addition to the catalogue for the Winter of 2022, and we ended up with an intimate group of four. My hope is that students and their communities will read and make use of these essays as they move through the university, and beyond.

Dr. Aaron Sidney Wright

Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki

(Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)