From the margins to the mainstream: deconstructing science communication as a white, Western paradigm

Authors

Summer M. Finlay, University of Canberra
Sujatha Raman, The Australian National University
Elizabeth Rasekoala, The Pan African Network for the Popularization of Science & Technology and Science Communication
Vanessa Mignan, communication institutions
Emily Dawson, University College London
Liz Neeley, principal of Liminal Creations
Lindy A. Orthia, The Australian National University

Publication Name

Journal of Science Communication

Abstract

In this commentary we are concerned with what mainstream science communication has neglected through cultural narrowness and ambient racism: other practitioners, missing audiences, unvalued knowledge, unrecognised practices. We explore examples from First Nations Peoples in the lands now known as Australia, from Griots in West Africa and from People’s Science Movements in India to help us reimagine science communication. To develop meaningfully inclusive approaches to science communication, we argue there is an urgent need for the ‘mainstream’ to recognise, value and learn from science communication practices that are all too often seen as at ‘the margins’ of this field.

Open Access Status

This publication may be available as open access

Volume

20

Issue

1

First Page

1

Last Page

12