epistemic extractivism
📖 Definitions
"The key feature of an extractivist epistemology, I argue, is the way in which it treats this epistemic resource as separable from its origin, without subsequent loss, rendering it into a commodity with exchange value over which exclusive rights can be contractually defined, protected, and enforced" (Alcoff 2022, 5).
💡 Examples
- Patenting plant material
- Museum collections of artifacts and human remains
🔗 Relations
- similar to: epistemic exploitation
📚 References
- Alcoff, Linda Martín. 2022. “Extractivist Epistemologies.” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2022.2127231