Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions

Authors

Mohan Dutta, Massey University
Srividya Ramasubramanian, Texas A&M
Mereana Barrett, Massey University
Christine Elers, Massey University
Devina Sarwatay, University of Hyderabad, India
Preeti Raghunath, University of Hyderabad, India
Satveer Kaur, Massey University
Debalina Dutta, Massey University
Pooja Jayan, Massey University
Mahbubur Rahman, Massey University
Edwin Tallam, Univesity of the Witwatersrand
Sudeshna Roy, Marquette UniversityFollow
Ashwini Falnikar, Christ University, Bangalore
Gayle Moana Johnson, Massey University
Indranil Mandal, Massey University
Uttaran Dutta, Arizona State University
Iccha Basnyat, George Mason University
Cheryll Soriano, De Lasalle University
Vinod Pavarala, University of Hyderabad, India
T. T. Sreekumar, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India
Shiv Ganesh, Univesity of Texas, Austin
Asha Rathina Pandi, Massey University
Dazzelyn Zapata, Massey University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2021

Publisher

Wiley

Source Publication

Journal of Communication

Source 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.

Comments

Accepted version. Journal of Communication, Vol. 71, No. 5 (2021): 803-826. DOI. © 2021 Wiley. Used with permission.

Recommended Citation

Dutta, Mohan; Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Barrett, Mereana; Elers, Christine; Sarwatay, Devina; Raghunath, Preeti; Kaur, Satveer; Dutta, Debalina; Jayan, Pooja; Rahman, Mahbubur; Tallam, Edwin; Roy, Sudeshna; Falnikar, Ashwini; Johnson, Gayle Moana; Mandal, Indranil; Dutta, Uttaran; Basnyat, Iccha; Soriano, Cheryll; Pavarala, Vinod; Sreekumar, T. T.; Ganesh, Shiv; Pandi, Asha Rathina; and Zapata, Dazzelyn, "Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions" (2021). College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications. 640.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/640