The risky business of research

The Control of Academic Knowledge Production and the Racialised and Gendered Contours of Corporate Power

Bibliographic Data

ID4367167
AuthorsKathryn Moeller (0009-0008-5684-740X, University of Cambridge, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume26
Issue2
Pages385-409
Publication date2025-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14647001241284984
OpenAlexW4403203024
LanguageEN
References cited43

This article examines attempts to censor academic knowledge production and expertise on corporate power. It provides an ethnographically grounded way of illuminating one corporation's attempts to control academic research as the company worked to maintain its hegemony in the face of a long history of public accusations of labour abuse. Reflecting on the author's own experience of negotiating fieldwork and publishing, the analysis reveals what antagonisms provoke corporate control of information, what social relations may ease corporate anxiety and what ultimately, regardless of these social relations, prompts corporations to protect themselves, often irrespective of the truth. In doing so, the article reveals the racialised, gendered and classed contours of corporate power and abuse

Economics · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Management · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies

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