Early in 2021, The American Naturalist announced a call for papers for a new special section addressing how systems of power and oppression have shaped theory and practice in organismal biology. “Nature, Data, and Power: How hegemonies shape biological knowledge” is an interdisciplinary section, written for an audience of biology researchers, aiming to identify problems within current theories and practices and also make suggestions on how we can transform our thinking and produce more just science.
We are proud to announce that these papers are now available (in early, non-typeset versions) from the journal’s Just Accepted page. The special section is as follows:
- “Nature, Data, and Power: How Hegemonies Shaped this Special Section” by Kamath et al.
- “Moving beyond the ‘diversity paradox’: the limitations of competition-based frameworks in understanding species diversity” by Simha et al.
- “Discussions of the ‘not-so-fit’: how ableism limits diverse thought and investigative potential in evolutionary biology” by Branch et al.
- “What’s Gender Got to Do With It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress” by Packer & Lambert
- “How Neanderthals became White: The introgression of race into contemporary human evolutionary genomics” by Weasel
- “Colonial legacies influence biodiversity lessons: how past trade routes and power dynamics shape present-day scientific research and professional opportunities for Caribbean scientists” by Mohammed et al.
- “Transforming Restoration Science: Multiple Knowledges and Community Research Cogeneration in the Klamath and Duwamish Rivers” by Klein et al.
- “Fish, people, and systems of power: understanding and disrupting feedback between colonialism and fisheries science” by Silver et al.
An earlier version of this announcement was posted on February 11, 2021, announcing the call for papers.