07-29-2019, 03:52 AM
TomK - Interesting. I haven't heard that argument until your post. Could you provide an example?
Social media commentary isn't indexed well for searching and it hasn't been a major discussion topic, but I'll see if I can dig up a few examples. It tends to be a more generalized commentary on colonialism and parallels other academic framing of the situation such as:
Mountains of Controversy: Narrative and the Making of Contested Landscapes in Postwar American Astronomy (2013)
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handl...sequence=3&isAllowed=y
"Strikingly, members of the Tohono O’odham, Native Hawaiian, and San Carlos Apache communities have independently framed the observatories as colonialist projects. For the Native populations considered in this dissertation, telescopes have become a threatening symbol of cultural genocide linked to a colonialist past. The telescopes, perceived as the pet projects of white men, are viewed as instruments of power and conquest."
Social media commentary isn't indexed well for searching and it hasn't been a major discussion topic, but I'll see if I can dig up a few examples. It tends to be a more generalized commentary on colonialism and parallels other academic framing of the situation such as:
Mountains of Controversy: Narrative and the Making of Contested Landscapes in Postwar American Astronomy (2013)
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handl...sequence=3&isAllowed=y
"Strikingly, members of the Tohono O’odham, Native Hawaiian, and San Carlos Apache communities have independently framed the observatories as colonialist projects. For the Native populations considered in this dissertation, telescopes have become a threatening symbol of cultural genocide linked to a colonialist past. The telescopes, perceived as the pet projects of white men, are viewed as instruments of power and conquest."