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Tilley, Lisa (2017) Resisting piratic method by doing research otherwise. Sociology, 51 (1). pp. 27-42. doi:10.1177/0038038516656992 ISSN 0038-0385 .
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038516656992
Abstract
The reconstruction of sociology into connected sociologies works towards a truly global and plural discipline. But if undoing the overrepresentation of European epistemology in sociology requires a deeper engagement with epistemologies of the South or worlds and knowledges otherwise, how can we ensure that such engagements do not simply reproduce colonial forms of appropriation and domination? Here I consider means of resisting extractive, or ‘piratic’ method in sociology research by drawing lessons from recent debates around geopiracy and biopiracy in geography and the life sciences. The core claim of this article is that any decolonial knowledge production must involve a consideration of the political economy of knowledge – its forms of extraction, points of commodification, how it is refined as intellectual property, and how it comes to alienate participating knowers. Against this I suggest a relearning of method in an anti-piratic way as a means of returning our work to the intellectual commons.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Sociology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0038-0385 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 February 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 51 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 27-42 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0038038516656992 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 June 2017 |
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