Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of claims of cultural appropriation in negotiating who has the right to utilise specific racial, cultural or communities' ways of knowing in research co-production. Cultural appropriation is a claim made against those making illegitimate use of traditions, knowledge and practises that originate from specific racial and/or cultural group. Appropriation helps us interrogate the ways in which rewards and benefits in academia are distributed and shared, denied or hoarded, and by whom.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is a dialogue between two researchers in the in-betweens of research co-production, specifically in the negotiation of claiming the right to lead or engage in Afrofuturist work with communities.

Findings

The claim of cultural appropriation is useful in naming, drawing boundaries and creating spaces for negotiation around access and ownership of academic work but must also develop as part of a broader transformative agenda towards racial equality in academia.

Research limitations/implications

In addition to ethical considerations about power imbalances and extractive practises, research co-production should also be concerned with acknowledging and crediting knowledge production practises that originate from specific racial and/or cultural groups.

Originality/value

This is the first paper to explore issues of cultural appropriation in research co-production, and co-production in relation to Afrofuturism. This extends ethical concerns on research co-production beyond academic power imbalances with, and extracting value from, communities to negotiating the relationships between academics and traditions, knowledge and practises developed by specific racial and/or cultural groups.

中文翻译：

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通过非洲未来主义重新构想共同生产的同时协商文化挪用

目的

本文的目的是探讨文化挪用主张在协商谁有权在研究合作生产中使用特定种族、文化或社区的认知方式中的作用。文化挪用是针对那些非法使用源自特定种族和/或文化群体的传统、知识和做法的人提出的索赔。拨款帮助我们探究学术界的奖励和利益是如何分配和分享、拒绝或囤积的，以及由谁来分配和分享。

设计/方法/方法

这篇论文是两位研究人员在研究合作生产之间的对话，特别是在声称有权领导或参与与社区的 Afrofuturist 工作的谈判中。

发现

文化挪用的主张有助于命名、划定界限并为围绕学术工作的获取和所有权创造谈判空间，但也必须作为更广泛的学术界种族平等变革议程的一部分而发展。

研究限制/影响

除了关于权力不平衡和榨取行为的伦理考虑之外，研究合作生产还应该关注承认和认可源自特定种族和/或文化群体的知识生产实践。

原创性/价值

这是第一篇探讨研究合作生产中的文化挪用问题以及与非洲未来主义相关的合作生产问题的论文。这使得对研究合作生产的伦理关注超出了与社区的学术权力不平衡和从社区中提取价值的范围，延伸到就特定种族和/或文化群体发展的学术与传统、知识和实践之间的关系进行谈判。