On the need for an anticolonial perspective in engineering education and practice

Srinjoy Mitra; Suvobrata Sarkar; Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra

doi:10.1038/s41467-023-43952-2

On the need for an anticolonial perspective in engineering education and practice

Nat Commun. 2023 Dec 20;14(1):8453. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43952-2.

Authors

Srinjoy Mitra¹, Suvobrata Sarkar², Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra³

Affiliations

¹ School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Srinjoy.Mitra@ed.ac.uk.
² Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.
³ School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Abstract

We examine the call for decolonising academic disciplines, and the extent which this applies to engineering. We argue that anticolonial endeavours should systematically recognise colonial legacy in contemporary science and technology, and reframe technological innovation in light of neocolonial extraction and exploitation.