Situated Knowledges¶
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575-599.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Boundary Critique
- This distinction prevents the common move of smuggling normative content
This sourceArgues all knowledge is partial and positioned and critiques the 'god-trick' of view-from-nowhere objectivity; supports the warning against smuggling normative content into apparently value-neutral / factual language.
- This distinction prevents the common move of smuggling normative content
Domain-specific¶
- Positionality
- Ethnography and qualitative methods — the home: the positionality statement is a standard genre in which the researcher names race, class, gender, affiliation, field language, and mode of entry and audits what each opened and closed. Standpoint epistemology and feminist philosophy of science — Haraway's situated knowledge, Harding, Collins: the formal argument that "the view from nowhere" is itself a position, usually that of dominant institutional knowers
This sourceHaraway's 'situated knowledges' essay, which treats the 'god trick' of a view from nowhere as an illusion.
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“of infinite vision is an illusion, a god trick. I would like to suggest how our insisting”
- Ethnography and qualitative methods — the home: the positionality statement is a standard genre in which the researcher names race, class, gender, affiliation, field language, and mode of entry and audits what each opened and closed. Standpoint epistemology and feminist philosophy of science — Haraway's situated knowledge, Harding, Collins: the formal argument that "the view from nowhere" is itself a position, usually that of dominant institutional knowers
Mechanisms¶
- Observer-Position Statement
- Position is a testable source of access, selection, and blind spots — the situated-knowledges view holds that all vision is from somewhere and is therefore accountable, not that all vision is equally (in)valid.
This sourceGrounds objectivity in partial, locatable, accountable positions and rejects both disembodied totalization and the equal-positioning claim of relativism.
- Position is a testable source of access, selection, and blind spots — the situated-knowledges view holds that all vision is from somewhere and is therefore accountable, not that all vision is equally (in)valid.
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