Resisting scientific extractivism: A post-extractivist policy of knowledge production with marginalised communities

This article analyses scientific extractivism as a research process in which the experiences, discourses and knowledge of members of marginalised social groups are subalternised, i.e. reduced to raw data appropriated by academics. What has been captured and assimilated is then largely reinjected int...

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Published inGateways (Sydney, N.S.W.) Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14
Main Author Godrie, Baptiste
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sydney UTS ePress 01.01.2025
UTS ePRESS
Subjects
accountability
Communities
epistemic justice
Evaluation
marginalized communities
Methodology
post-extractivist knowledge policy
relational ethics
Responsibility
Scientific extractivism
Social groups
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ISSN1836-3393
1836-3393
DOI10.5130/ijcre.v18i1.9326

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Summary:This article analyses scientific extractivism as a research process in which the experiences, discourses and knowledge of members of marginalised social groups are subalternised, i.e. reduced to raw data appropriated by academics. What has been captured and assimilated is then largely reinjected into closed circuits operating essentially between academics, from which marginalised communities are largely excluded. Ultimately, extractivism produces scientific careers and minefields; it confers disproportionate benefits to academics and little or no benefit on communities in material support, intellectual credit, or contribution to social struggles, which May lead them to turn away from academia.
Bibliography:Gateways, Vol. 18, No. 1, June 2025, 1-14
Informit, Melbourne (Vic)
ISSN:1836-3393
1836-3393
DOI:10.5130/ijcre.v18i1.9326