Dutta, M., Ramasubramanian, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-2140-8008, Barrett, M. et al. (20 more authors) (2021) Decolonizing open science: Southern interventions. Journal of Communication, 71 (5). pp. 803-826. ISSN 0021-9916
Abstract
Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in the Global North and serving the economic interests of platform capitalism, systematically erase the voices of the subaltern margins from the Global South and the Southern margins inhabiting the North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative of creating access for and empowering the margins through data exchanged on the global free market, hegemonic Open Science processes co-opt and erase Southern epistemologies, working to create and reproduce new enclosures of extraction that serve data colonialism-capitalism. In this essay, drawing on our ongoing negotiations of community-led culture-centered advocacy and activist strategies that resist the racist, gendered, and classed structures of neocolonial knowledge production in the metropole in the North, we attend to Southern practices of Openness that radically disrupt the whiteness of hegemonic Open Science. These decolonizing practices foreground data sovereignty, community ownership, and public ownership of knowledge resources as the bases of resistance to the colonial-capitalist interests of hegemonic Open Science.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). |
Keywords: | Open Science; Global South; Data Resistance; Data Sovereignty; Data Colonialism; Data Sovereignty; Culture-Centered Approach; Decolonization |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2023 16:52 |
Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2023 16:56 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/joc/jqab027 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:205503 |