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The colonial power relation in knowledge production industry about #AFG is shaped by the practice of authorship as an exclusive business. The politics of authorship is aimed at treating data collection and field work by locals as ‘labor work’, and hence cheap, and the act of ... https://twitter.com/gharjie/status/1327391833434021888
writing as the ‘intellectual’ process of research. The common belief in superiority of the intellectual work over the labor work delegitimizes ‘data collectors’ and local contributors’ claim to authorship. That’s how authorship becomes an act of power communication and ...
exclusive privilege.
I have much to say and write about it, maybe an article sometimes in the future. Here I want to clarify that not all western researchers in #AFG are exploiting the locals. But those are more like exceptions than rules. Need more awareness about the ethics
I have much to say and write about it, maybe an article sometimes in the future. Here I want to clarify that not all western researchers in #AFG are exploiting the locals. But those are more like exceptions than rules. Need more awareness about the ethics
and politics of research on and in #AFG. What I said about the exclusive and exploitive practice of authorship is not limited to western researchers. I once did a report for a local institution. They presented it under the institution’s name without feeling obligation to have..
have my name on it because it was a “consultancy”. I was paid for it so they had bought the authorship. That was pretty much it for me, because I decided to never do ‘consultancy’ work again because I felt exploited.
