Decolonizing Open Science

Southern Interventions

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ID22693181
AuthorsM J Dutta (0000-0002-2228-8100, Massey University, corresponding author), Mohan Dutta (0000-0002-4115-6832, Massey University), Ramasubramanian (0000-0003-2140-8008, Texas A&M University), Mereana Barrett (0000-0003-1732-280X, Massey University), Christine Elers (Massey University), Christine Helen Elers (0000-0002-9726-4760, Massey University), Devina Sarwatay (0000-0003-3453-5786, University of Hyderabad), Preeti Raghunath (0000-0003-4260-266X, University of Hyderabad), Satveer Kaur-Gill (0000-0001-8786-0561, Massey University), Debalina Dutta (0000-0003-2421-361X, School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing; Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, Aotearoa 4442, New Zealand), Pooja Jayan (0000-0002-5805-4138, Massey University), Mahbubur Rahman (0000-0003-0520-2683, Massey University), Md Mahbubur Rahman (0000-0003-4887-5933, Massey University), Edwin Tallam (0000-0001-7950-4823, University of the Witwatersrand), Sudeshna Roy (0000-0001-5332-5536, Department of Languages, Cultures and Communication (LCC), Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU), TX 75962, USA), Ashwini Falnikar (0000-0002-2661-9288, Media Studies, CHRIST University, Bangalore, India), Gayle Moana Johnson, Indranil Mandal (Massey University), Uttaran Dutta (0000-0002-6833-1661, Arizona State University), Iccha Basnyat (0000-0002-5051-2317, George Mason University), Cheryll Ruth Soriano (0000-0003-3228-1065), Cheryll Soriano (Department of Communication, De Lasalle University, Philippines), Vinod Pavarala (0000-0002-1712-2755, University of Hyderabad), T T Sreekumar (0000-0003-0088-1170, Department of Communication, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India), Shiv Ganesh (0000-0002-7239-5465, The University of Texas at Austin), Asha Rathina Pandi (Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing; Massey University, Johor Bahru, Malaysia), Dazzelyn Zapata (Massey University)
Year2021
Publication date2021-09-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/joc/jqab027
OpenAlexW3198080190
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited34

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.

Capitalism · Citizen journalism · Colonialism · Hegemony · Media studies · Narrative · Negotiation · Openness to experience · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Subaltern · Digital Education and Society · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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