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2019, Dialogues in Human Geography
Feminist and queer epistemologies have been influential throughout the social sciences by means of the development of a set of interrelated approaches involving positionality, partiality, reflexivity, intersectionality, and the highly politicized thesis of situated knowledge. This article aims to operationalize these approaches by introducing an anti-humanist, politically attuned, and historically contextualized framework, which postulates that one’s knowledge is inevitably incomplete and situated because information about the world always reaches one through a channel that is constituted by four epistemic gaps: (1) ‘possible worlds versus realized world’, (2) ‘realized world versus witnessed situation’, (3) ‘witnessed situation versus remembered situation’, and (4) ‘remembered situation versus confessed situation’. Simandan D (2019) “Revisiting positionality and the thesis of situated knowledge” Dialogues in Human Geography [2017 impact factor 10.214, rank 1/84 Geography], vol. 9(2), pp. 129-149, https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619850013
Dialogues in Human Geography
Beyond Haraway? Addressing constructive criticisms to the 'four epistemic gaps' interpretation of positionality and situated knowledges2019 •
The ‘four epistemic gaps’ interpretation of positionality and situated knowledges developed in the anchor article goes significantly beyond Donna Haraway’s original formulation of the thesis of situated knowledges. It does so by organizing the study of the processes that provincialize and politicize perception and cognition alongside a logical sequence of epistemic gaps that shape the quantity and content of information accessible to different subjectivities. In this contribution, I address four sets of productive tensions and constructive criticisms sparked by the anchor article and highlight how they can help fulfill the promise of a generative research program that engages multiple other voices. Simandan, D., (2019). “Beyond Haraway? Addressing constructive criticisms to the ‘four epistemic gaps’ interpretation of positionality and situated knowledges” Dialogues in Human Geography [2017 impact factor 10.214, rank 1/84 Geography], vol. 9(2), pp. 166-170, https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619850272 .
Women: A Cultural Review
'Situated Knowledges' and New Materialism(s): Rethinking a Politics of Location (2014)2017 •
The concept of “situated knowledge” is a major epistemological tool in feminist and antiracist theory. It presents an alternative to positivist notions of objectivity on the one hand and relativism on the other. The term itself goes back to an article by Donna Haraway first published in 1988 in the journal Feminist Studies and titled “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective” (Haraway, 1991 [1988]). In keeping with Haraway's characteristically provocative use of language, the very title of the article contains two challenges to conventional epistemology and the sociology of knowledge: the pluralization of the word “knowledge” as soon as it is understood as “situated,” and the notion that partiality of perspective can be a privilege, when common sense would suggest that “partiality” points to a lack and that a privileged perspective is one that is all-seeing and all-knowing. The latter – the ideal observer–knower–speaker situation as imagined by more traditional epistemologies – is famously lampooned by Haraway as “the god-trick of seeing everything from nowhere” (1991 [1988]: 189).
Espace populations sociétés
Feminist Knowledge and Ethical Concerns : Towards a Geography of Situated Ethics2004 •
Feminist studies
Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective1988 •
Academic and activist feminist inquiry has repeatedly tried to come to terms with the question of what we might mean by the curious and inescapable term "objectivity." We have used a lot of toxic ink and trees processed into paper decrying what they have meant and how it ...
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In this article, the feminist and science and technology studies roots of situated epistemology are discussed. The idea of combining a commitment to a real world, albeit a constructivist one, with attention to practice and embodiment is assessed. The controversial conferral of agency on nonhuman objects is similarly explicated. Finally, uptake and critique of the notion of situated knowledges is addressed
The Professional Geographer
Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality: A Challenge for Feminist Geography*2007 •
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Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Reviews: Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies, Lefebvre, Love and Struggle: Spatial Dialectics, Rethinking Geopolitics2000 •
Ngapartji Ngapartji. In turn, in turn. Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia
Situated Knowledge or Ego(His)toire? Memory, History and the She-Migrant in an Imaginary of 'Terra Nullius'.2014 •
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Geography and Feminism: Worlds in Collision?1992 •
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Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Other Figures in Other Places: On Feminism, Postmodernism and Geography1992 •
The Professional Geographer
Introduction to Focus Section: Feminist Research and Knowledge Production in Geography2017 •
Zeitschrift für Australienstudien 35 — 2021
"Creativity, Critique and the Problem of Situated Knowledge." Narrating Lives -Telling (Hi)stories. Transcultural Readings. Eds. Neumeier, Beate; Herche, Victoria. Special issue of Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal 35: 61 -722021 •
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Higher Education Quarterly
Shifting positionalities across international locations: Embodied knowledge, time‐geography, and the polyvalence of privilege2019 •
Gender, Place & Culture
Towards transnational feminist queer methodologies2017 •