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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 803-826 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Journal of Communication |
Volume | 71 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Culture-Centered Approach
- Data Colonialism
- Data Resistance
- Data Sovereignty
- Data Sovereignty
- Decolonization
- Global South
- Open Science
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language