Uncertainty and Method Tissberger, Martina
The European journal of women's studies,
08/2005, Letnik:
12, Številka:
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This article discusses the methodological challenges posed for psychological research on whiteness at the intersection between race and gender in Germany. Much of the current research in the social ...science field in Germany focuses on violent expressions of racism or Fremdenfeindlichkeit (hostility towards strangers) and represents a collective immunization against the knowledge about the history and the historicity of whiteness as a history of seizure. Such approaches are motivated by fear and uncertainty. The author takes this uncertainty not only as a starting point for an investigation into the heavily veiled history of whiteness, but also as a method in itself.
이 글은 신자유주의적 지구화에 따른 사회 변화에 대해 개인들의 다양한 대응방식의 윤곽들이 어느 정도 드러나기 시작한 후기근대 한국사회에서 페미니스트 인식론이 어떤 해석적 관점을 제공할 수 있는지, 그리고 그 관점이 어떤 페미니스트 정치학적 전략을 제시하는지 살펴보려는 것이다. 이를 위해 이 글은 먼저 페미니스트 인식론이 지난 30년에 가까운 시간동안 어떤 ...수정과 보완 과정을 거쳐 왔는지 자세히 살펴보고 이러한 변화의 방향의 주요 특징을 실천적 전환으로 규정하면서 그 근거를 제시한다. 나아가 이 글은 실천적 전환으로 새롭게 해석된 페미니스트 인식론의 정치적 함의가 아고니즘 정치학의 주요 주장들과 일치함을 주장한다. 마지막으로 이러한 페미니스트 인식론의 실천적 전환과 그 정치적 함의로서의 아고니즘 정치학적 대안은 후기근대적 성격이 짙게 드리운 현재 한국 여성들의 삶을 구성하는 다양한 실천들을 이해하는데 새로운 설명력을 주고 있음을 주장한다.
사례를 통해 이 글은 현재 한국사회는 아시아 금융위기 이후에 급속하게 진행된 신자유주의적 사회개혁의 여파로 다양한 병리적 사회적 현상들을 드러내고 있으며 여성들의 삶은 그러한 현상들을 지탱하는 사회적 실천 속에 몰입되어 그 창의적인 역할의 기회를 찾지 못하고 있지만 성노동자 운동과 젊은 고학력 여성들의 거침없는 자신감에서 그러한 사회적 실천을 구성하는 수행들에 대한 평가의 변화를 읽을 수 있다는 점을 주장한다.
This work examines new interpretative perspectives that feminist epistemology can provide and their strategical implications on feminist politics in late modern Korean society where variegated forms of individual strategy against the social restructuring incurred by neoliberal globalization have been taking shape. For this, I analyze the changes and modifications feminist epistemology has gone through during the last three decades. These changes and modifications can be characterized as a practical turn in a broad sense. It is further shown that feminist epistemology thus interpreted naturally leads to the adoption of agonistic politics as its political implications. Lastly I emphasize that the practical turn of feminist epistemology and agonistic politics as its political implementation lend new explanatory power in understanding the practices constituting women's lives in the late modern Korean society.
Through the analysis of several exemplary cases, I argue that the contemporary Korean society suffers various anomalous and pathological social phenomena mainly as the aftereffects of neoliberal social restructuring process that has been going on at an unprecedented speed. Most Korean women, deeply submerged in the social practices sustaining these social phenomena, have failed to secure opportunities to create new social practices. However, by analyzing sex workers' movement and the changing participatory characters of young highly educated women in various important political and social events of last decade, I try to read some promising signs of impending changes in scorekeeping acts on the performances among Korean women.
In this article the conceptual connections between Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and the work of three contemporary feminist epistemologists: standpoint theorist Sandra Harding and feminist empiricists ...Helen Longino and Lynn Hankinson Nelson, are explored. The inquiry reveals both surprising similarities and important differences between Wittgensteinian and feminist epistemologies. Exploring these similarities and differences (criticism, context and community) clarifies Wittgenstein’s epistemology and reveals the ways in which feminist epistemologists developed the themes from On Certainty.
This article discusses the methodological challenges posed for psychological research on whiteness at the intersection between race and gender in Germany. Much of the current research in the social ...science field in Germany focuses on violent expressions of racism or Fremdenfeindlichkeit (hostility towards strangers) and represents a collective immunization against the knowledge about the history and the historicity of whiteness as a history of seizure. Such approaches are motivated by fear and uncertainty. The author takes this uncertainty not only as a starting point for an investigation into the heavily veiled history of whiteness, but also as a method in itself.
This article proposes a model of the science-and-religion discourse (SRD) as a ‘public’ discourse, a model that incorporates the insights of feminist epistemologies. Feminists have rejected ...objectivism, and have instead proposed an understanding of knowledge as a relationship between the knower and that which is known – a relational epistemology – and between the knower and society: a ‘situated knower’. The second part discusses the implications of this perspective for the SRD. It argues that, to the extent that people seek agreement between science and religion, the objectivist notions of knowledge in the SRD may actually impede discourse, for these concepts are embedded in a world-view in which either science or religion must be subordinated to the other. It concludes by offering a model of discourse based on the thought of Hannah Arendt.
The objective of this article is to show how issues concerning women in science and the problem of gendered science, often treated separately, are interconnected. To examine how research on women in ...science and research on gender and science relate to each other, some feminist epistemological perspectives, mainly feminist contextual empiricism, are used in order to show how the feminist philosophical conceptual framework may be useful for understanding the problems currently faced by women in science. After reflecting and elaborating on the very thesis of gendered science, the author analyses in more detail the concept of epistemic communities and the concept of trust as an epistemic factor. Through these concepts the author argues that philosophical/ epistemological considerations are fruitful for studying the experience of individual women in science. Both of these interrelated concepts are considered highly relevant in the search for an epistemological framework facilitating the thematic study of women in science on a theoretical level and research on the current situation of women in the academic world in Slovakia.
The objective of this article is to show how issues concerning women in science and the problem of gendered science, often treated separately, are interconnected. To examine how research on women in ...science and research on gender and science relate to each other, some feminist epistemological perspectives, mainly feminist contextual empiricism, are used in order to show how the feminist philosophical conceptual framework may be useful for understanding the problems currently faced by women in science. After reflecting and elaborating on the very thesis of gendered science, the author analyses in more detail the concept of epistemic communities and the concept of trust as an epistemic factor. Through these concepts the author argues that philosophical/epistemological considerations are fruitful for studying the experience of individual women in science. Both of these interrelated concepts are considered highly relevant in the search for an epistemological framework facilitating the thematic study of women in science on a theoretical level and research on the current situation of women in the academic world in Slovakia.
Članak istražuje pojmovne veze između Wittgensteinova spisa O izvjesnosti i rada triju suvremenih feminističkih epistemologinja: teoretičarke stajališta (standpoint theorist) Sandre Harding i ...feminističkih empirista Helen Longino i Lynn Hankinson Nelson. Ispitivanje otkriva kako iznenađujuće sličnosti, tako i važne razlike između wittgensteinovske i feminističkih epistemologija. Istraživanje tih sličnosti i razlika pojašnjava Wittgensteinovu epistemologiju i razotkriva načine na koje su feminističke epistemologinje razvile teme iz spisa O izvjesnosti.
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