Situated knowledges

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Abstract

The notion of situated knowledge involves a significant theoretical turn which allows for the resignification of epistemology in feminist terms. It is not by chance that it has been and still is a much revised and discussed topic. The reflection I will share about one of the most significant notions for a resignification of epistemology in feminist terms, which was coined by Donna Haraway in 1988, is anchored in three places which configure both a theoretical and a practical space in which knowledge is situated from the beginning and always as experience: the subject, the body, and the real. Based on the hypothesis that knowledge is situated in contradiction, that is, when it pays attention to the fact that there is a lack in knowledge which, however, constitutes it, I will consider where to situate knowledge from a feminist perspective which takes into account difference as sexual difference, that is, as a singular experience.

Keywords

situated knowledges, body, singularity, real, subject

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Author Biography

Begonya Sáez Tajafuerce, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Begonya Sáez Tajafuerce is a tenured professor in Philosophy at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2001 she investigates on identity in contemporary terms and since 2005 she is member of the Body and Textuality Research Group (UAB). Her work focuses on epistemological, ethical and political feminist approaches to the body from a relational perspective and refers to gender, sexuality, and queer studies. Some of her most recent publications are Representación fronteriza de la memoria histórica de las mujeres (2011), Debats: Un corpus para el cuerpo (2013) and, as editor, Cuerpo, memoria y representación: Adriana Cavarero y Judith Butler en diálogo (2014).

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1198

Published

2018-03-02

How to Cite

Sáez Tajafuerce, B. (2018). Situated knowledges. Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason, 60, 93–108. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1198

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