Publications and Research
Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
1-26-2023
Abstract
Bibliodiversity is a critical concept in mitigating epistemic injustice and coloniality. Scholarly communities must determine their own agendas in order to create diverse pathways for varied knowledge circuits across local, regional, and international boundaries. Virtue epistemology, epistemic injustice, epistemic coloniality, and scholarly communications share some common ground, albeit utilizing very different rhetoric and discourse. Epistemic injustice and coloniality, in particular, align with concerns related to scholarly communications. Subsequently, I will provide an overview of open access, addressing its history and how current conditions that have resulted in the domination of the author pays model and marginalization of Southern authors. The neocolonial, perpetuated by its counterpart, neoliberalism, is manifested in linguistic exclusion, policy copying, and predatory publishing which in turn create epistemic harm. We can respond to epistemic injustice via the ethos of bibliodiversity which resists corporate cooption of open access and scholarly publishing in the form of self-determined, non-profit, community-based free-to-authors publishing as modeled in Latin America. I will also highlight new cooperatives and initiatives that support diamond open access and bibliodiversity. Integral to these efforts are initiatives seeking the reform of scholarly assessment. Without changes in evaluation, our efforts face greater obstacles and are less likely to be understood and accepted.
Comments
Invited talk presented at The Integrative Potential of Epistemic Virtues for the Digital Humanities, German Institute for Japan Studies in Tokyo, Jan. 26-28, 2023.