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In this chapter I rely on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Paul Gilroy, and Sandra Harding to demonstrate science always played a role in colonialism and how the work of these scholars develops an alternative view of the connections between science and colonialism in order to create a critique of colonialism but also constructs postcolonial sciences.
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Weaver, J.A. (2018). (Post)Colonial Science. In: Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies. Critical Studies of Education, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93840-0_6
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