Reinterpreting knowledge commons and sociospatial strategies of community-led publishing in times of transition

Christoph Schimmel
2021 Zenodo  
What role do sociospatial strategies, open infrastructures and solidarity play during the digital transformation of the scholarly publishing system? In a highly contested field where the die seems already cast of how to publish and read, many scholars band together in a common struggle against an enclosure and co-optation of knowledge infrastructures and disrupt solid power geometries (Massey 1999). In my talk I will begin with prospects and challenges for scholars and academic institutions
more » ... ng the digital transformation of the scholarly publishing system as well as its associated mechanisms of producing social inequalities (Larivière et al. 2015; Herb & Schöpfel 2018). Followed by stressing on sociospatial practices and its strategic relevance for stakeholders being involved within the Open Access community. In this connection, I will more precisely exemplify approaches differing from established forms of scholarly publishing. As a case study for establishing solidary infrastructures of scholarly publishing, I will bring the Radical Open Access Collective into focus of my talk (Adema & Moore 2018). In this regard, I will highlight the Collective's reinterpretation of knowledge commons (Hess und Ostrom 2007) and sociospatial strategies they apply for vertical collaborations and horizontal alliances via establishing infrastructures in order to create a solidary knowledge commons.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5817380 fatcat:f64ttcn56bdf5kqchm4ujghrla