From Absences to the Ecologies of Knowledges

Author(s)

Jenny Marcela Torres Heredia

Abstract

The mechanisms of a scholarly communication system based on monocultural logics discourages plurality, reproduces epistemological absences, asymmetries, and hierarchical mechanisms of knowledge generation and dissemination. Considering the diversity of the fields of knowledge, practices, communities, research emphases, languages, infrastructures, and regional, local and disciplinary particularities, a monocultural publication system tends to promote homogenisation by marginalising or negating the existence of everything not conforming to the one logic. The Open Access field of discussion raises several these issues and impulses initiatives working on alternative approaches to them. Setting up plural and equitable conditions in the generation, dissemination and dialogue of diverse forms of knowledge is the central feature of a perspective based on generating and strengthening ecologies, involving diverse actors previously absent from these discussions while considering the conditions of inequality. Strengthening existing initiatives which are already working on the construction of more plural and equitable forms of scientific and academic communication is fundamental.

Organisation(s)

Department of Development Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Volume

XXXVIII

Pages

114-151

No. of pages

37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-37-1-114

Publication date

07-2021

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

509017 Social studies of science, 509006 History of social sciences

Keywords

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7c2503f2-c8b6-4d4c-b528-b1343180e81c