Thinking about a museum here in Dublin that tweets a lot about its collections and the provenance of its objects but without really getting into the colonialism and imperialism that underpins the acquisition of these objects. 1/
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Anyone who lives in Ireland will probably know what museum I am talking about and they may well know more than me about how they deal with this legacy in the physical space but ignoring this on Twitter is I think inappropriate. 6/
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And I think that anyone who works with heritage in some way has a responsibility to acknowledge the trauma that is attached to their collections. 7/7
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Addendum: my point here is that natural history is not a neutral discipline and it is just as rooted in racism, imperialism, and colonialism as other disciplines.
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Totally and sometimes just imposing false narratives onto indigenous wildlife, like thinking all kinds of things were wolves that weren't wolves and hunting harmless animals into extinction.
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Yea this too. Although the extinction of wolves in Europe was detrimental to the ecosystems and there are several wolf species in America that are at risk for the same reason: trophy hunting.
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