One would have thought that disciplines related to science, medicine or engineering might be ringfenced from the pernicious influence of positionality, but even these are now seen as constructions of an oppressive white, male and heteronormative culture. This is to engage in a soft form of racism, because the history of scientific discovery is by no means the singular domain of white people. With the origins of science in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the development of mathematics and physics in medieval Islam, claims that such areas of study are inherently ‘Eurocentric’ are untenable.
