Against academic "resourcification": collaboration as delinking from extractivist "area studies" paradigms
Against academic "resourcification": collaboration as delinking from extractivist "area studies" paradigms
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反对学术“资源化”：合作与采掘主义“区域研究”范式脱钩
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10.1080/00085006.2023.2200669
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发表时间：
2023
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0.4
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Donovan V
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作者：
Donovan V
本文涉及亚洲Bazdyrieva的乌克兰的“资源化”的想法-也就是说，乌克兰在苏联和西方的地缘政治想象减少到仅仅是一个提取资源-发展和批评的想法“学术资源化”。作者认为，西方研究人员经常把乌克兰（和其他非西方）的主题作为提取资源，挖掘他们的专业知识和知识，而不承认他们在工作中的代理或贡献。本文主张西方学术实践的非殖民化，其形式是与知识生产的这种剥削性和提取性范式“脱钩”，而不是用非殖民化学者沃尔特·米尼奥洛的话来说，“以其他方式思考和做事”。问它意味着什么去殖民化学术界，文章转向灵感乌克兰非殖民化研究者，艺术家，活动家，考虑这些人正在塑造更公平和道德形式的知识生产的方式。文章最后提倡合作方法--即与当地思想家共同生产知识，而不是关于他们--作为西方学者努力使其研究去殖民化的生产模式。
This article engages Asia Bazdyrieva’s idea of the “resourcification” of Ukraine – that is, the reduction of Ukraine in Soviet and Western geopolitical imaginations to a mere extraction resource – to develop and criticize the idea of “academic resourcification.” The author argues that Western researchers have often treated Ukrainian (and other non-Western) subjects as extraction resources, mining their expertise and knowledge, without acknowledging their agency or contributions in their work. The article argues for the decolonization of Western academic practice in the form of “delinking” from such exploitative and extractivist paradigms of knowledge production and instead aspiring, in the words of the decolonial scholar Walter Mignolo, to “thinking and doing otherwise.” Asking what it means to decolonize academia, the article turns for inspiration to Ukrainian decolonial researcher-artist-activists, considering the ways in which these individuals are modelling more equitable and ethical forms of knowledge production. The article ends by advocating collaborative methods – that is, the co-production of knowledgewithlocal thinkers, rather thanaboutthem – as a productive model for Western scholars in their efforts to decolonize their research.