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Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions

Title
Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions
Creator
Dutta M.; Ramasubramanian S.; Barrett M.; Elers C.; Sarwatay D.; Raghunath P.; Kaur S.; Dutta D.; Jayan P.; Rahman M.; Tallam E.; Roy S.; Falnikar A.; Johnson G.M.; Mandal I.; Dutta U.; Basnyat I.; Soriano C.; Pavarala V.; Sreekumar T.T.; Ganesh S.; Pandi A.R.; Zapata D.
Description
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. The Author(s) 2021.
Source
Journal of Communication, Vol-71, No. 5, pp. 803-826.
Date
2021-01-01
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Subject
Culture-Centered Approach; Data Colonialism; Data Resistance; Data Sovereignty; Data Sovereignty; Decolonization; Global South; Open Science
Coverage
Dutta M., Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, Aotearoa, 4442, New Zealand; Ramasubramanian S., Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, 77843, TX, United States; Barrett M., School of Accountancy, Massey University, Aotearoa, New Zealand; Elers C., Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, Aotearoa, 4442, New Zealand; Sarwatay D., Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India; Raghunath P., Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India; Kaur S., Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Singapore; Dutta D., School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, Aotearoa, 4442, New Zealand; Jayan P., Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, Aotearoa, 4442, New Zealand; Rahman M., Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, Aotearoa, 4442, New Zealand; Tallam E., Department of Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Roy S., Department of Languages, Cultures and Communication (LCC), Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU), 75962, TX, United States; Falnikar A., Media Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Johnson G.M.; Mandal I., Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, Aotearoa, 4442, New Zealand, Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Kharagpur, India; Dutta U., Hugh Downs School of Communication, Arizona State University, Arizona, United States; Basnyat I., Global Affairs Program, Department of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, 22030, VA, United States; Soriano C., Department of Communication, De Lasalle University, Philippines; Pavarala V., Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India; Sreekumar T.T., Department of Communication, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India; Ganesh S., Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States; Pandi A.R., Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Johor Bahru, Malaysia; Zapata D., Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University, Manila, Philippines
Rights
Restricted Access
Relation
ISSN: 219916
Format
Online
Language
English
Type
Article

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Dutta M.; Ramasubramanian S.; Barrett M.; Elers C.; Sarwatay D.; Raghunath P.; Kaur S.; Dutta D.; Jayan P.; Rahman M.; Tallam E.; Roy S.; Falnikar A.; Johnson G.M.; Mandal I.; Dutta U.; Basnyat I.; Soriano C.; Pavarala V.; Sreekumar T.T.; Ganesh S.; Pandi A.R.; Zapata D., “Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/15919.

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