Laura Foster Research Collection

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    Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Technoscience
    (MIT Press, 2016-12) Foster, Laura; Subramaniam, Banu; Harding, Sandra; Roy, Deboleena; TallBear, Kim
    This chapter identifies an emerging cluster of work that brings together the intersecting concerns of science and technology studies (STS), feminist STS, and postcolonial STS. We begin by identifying a few of the central themes in each field and then introduce an emerging cluster of scholarship that works across all three. We then discuss three recent themes that highlight the key issues for STS: (1) critiques of colonial science and its hierarchies of gender/race/class, (2) Latin American decolonial theory and its feminist insights, and (3) how indigenous peoples' knowledge challenges all three of the above mentioned fields. We end with some reflections for the future of STS by arguing for more scholarly work that engages with all three of these intersecting fields. We believe that this is important for the field of STS because a singular focus on gender, race, coloniality, or indigeneity alone leaves numerous gaps in our understanding of the co-constitution of science and society.
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    Tensions Related to Openness in Researching Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property Rights
    (University of Ottawa Press, 2019-10-01) Foster, Laura; Traynor, Cath; Schonwetter, Tobias
    This chapter explores issues of boundaries in practices of open science regarding research involving indigenous peoples in South Africa. We start considering colonial notions of ‘science’ and ‘openness’, and how historical injustices and lack of redress influence the context in which our current research sits. Our research broadly aimed to develop a political, ecological approach to understanding the relationship between climate change, intellectual property, and indigenous peoples. Our approach was influenced by ‘decolonizing methodologies’ and feminist perspectives, and we employed participatory action research methodologies to guide not just the substantive, but also procedural elements of the research. We discuss our experience with developing ‘community-researcher contracts’ in an attempt to make ourselves as researchers more accountable to Indigenous Nama and Griqua communities and to adequately protect their indigenous knowledge. The challenges of negotiating the contracts is described and how we conceptualized the concept of a “situated openness” - a way of doing research that assumes knowledge production and dissemination is situated within particular historical, political, socio-cultural, and legal relations.