Scholarly communications and their underpinning infrastructures are increasingly being called upon to recognize and incorporate Indigenous demands for research sovereignty. Such demands arise from long-standing research practices that have largely ignored Indigenous agency and desire for control over their knowledge. Digitization has created an urgency for Indigenous people to understand, interrogate, and develop alternate approaches to knowledge holding and dissemination. This encompasses all aspects of the research life-cycle and also requires development of new tools and models.
This Research Topic seeks to answer the following question: how are Indigenous people approaching the issue of research sovereignty, particularly in light of rapid digitization and new forms of research dissemination (e.g., digital platforms)? We are interested in submissions that theorize Indigenous research sovereignty in both its broad and particular forms, and that build the case for Indigenous research sovereignty.
We are also interested in current or developing practices across the broad field of scholarly communication; hence, exemplars, case studies, theoretical models or proposed approaches are welcome.
Specific topics for submission include, but are not limited to, the following:
• theory/ies of Indigenous research sovereignty—distinguishing features
• how Indigenous research sovereignty informs or might inform practices across all or any part of the research life-cycle (e.g., ethics, engagement, publication, peer-review, and dissemination
• governance for Indigenous research sovereignty
• policy for Indigenous research sovereignty
• Open Science and Indigenous research sovereignty
• ‘non-conventional’ research dissemination platforms and Indigenous research sovereignty: current (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, TikYok, and YouTube) and future (e.g., the Metaverse)
• new technical models or infrastructure solutions for Indigenous research sovereignty
• case studies where Indigenous research sovereignty has empowered or benefitted communities.
Scholarly communications and their underpinning infrastructures are increasingly being called upon to recognize and incorporate Indigenous demands for research sovereignty. Such demands arise from long-standing research practices that have largely ignored Indigenous agency and desire for control over their knowledge. Digitization has created an urgency for Indigenous people to understand, interrogate, and develop alternate approaches to knowledge holding and dissemination. This encompasses all aspects of the research life-cycle and also requires development of new tools and models.
This Research Topic seeks to answer the following question: how are Indigenous people approaching the issue of research sovereignty, particularly in light of rapid digitization and new forms of research dissemination (e.g., digital platforms)? We are interested in submissions that theorize Indigenous research sovereignty in both its broad and particular forms, and that build the case for Indigenous research sovereignty.
We are also interested in current or developing practices across the broad field of scholarly communication; hence, exemplars, case studies, theoretical models or proposed approaches are welcome.
Specific topics for submission include, but are not limited to, the following:
• theory/ies of Indigenous research sovereignty—distinguishing features
• how Indigenous research sovereignty informs or might inform practices across all or any part of the research life-cycle (e.g., ethics, engagement, publication, peer-review, and dissemination
• governance for Indigenous research sovereignty
• policy for Indigenous research sovereignty
• Open Science and Indigenous research sovereignty
• ‘non-conventional’ research dissemination platforms and Indigenous research sovereignty: current (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, TikYok, and YouTube) and future (e.g., the Metaverse)
• new technical models or infrastructure solutions for Indigenous research sovereignty
• case studies where Indigenous research sovereignty has empowered or benefitted communities.