This open access book explores contemporary practices that challenge science, arguing that this matter cannot be simply disregarded as a new manifestation of “anti-scientism”. It scrutinizes the ...processes through which knowledge claims, refused by established institutions and the scientific community, seek legitimacy. Assuming an agnostic analytical stance, it explores the actors involved in such processes and their social worlds, their interactions with epistemic institutions, and the ways in which they enact such refused knowledge in their daily lives. Drawing on a three-year mixed-method research project, this collection demonstrates how refused knowledge can be seen as a distinct mode of knowing, employed in response to the uncertainties of everyday life. Thus, it offers a deeper understanding not only of how refused knowledge garners credibility, but also of how knowledge at large – including scientific knowledge – emerges from specific sociotechnical assemblages.
When metadata becomes knowledge, opportunities for multiplicity and risks of harm and exclusion arise. As GLAM institutions contribute to the Semantic Web, we must pay attention to the implications ...of participation. While the Semantic Web grew out of the flourishing of web technologies in the 1990s, recognizing its roots in classical/symbolic AI (referred to as Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence, or GOFAI)—in particular, expert systems and knowledge representation—encourages critical questions like: which problems from knowledge representation and expert systems does the Semantic Web inherit? Are GOFAI failures really failures, or does the gap between rhetoric and practice point to generative possibilities (some of which can now be seen in Semantic Web initiatives)? What can we learn from AI critics, feminist approaches, and the unmasking of encyclopedic neutrality? This research article will explore how critiques of AI expert systems and Cyc, an ongoing project to create a common sense knowledge base, might apply to Semantic Web efforts like Wikipedia, Wikidata, DBpedia, and Schema.org.
In this article, the authors (re)visit Solorzano and Delgado Bernal's (2001) Urban Education article, “Examining Transformational Resistance Through a Critical Race and LatCrit Theory Framework: ...Chicana and Chicano Students in an Urban Context,” to discuss transformational resistance in conversation with other works on youth resistance to (re)visit and (re)imagine student oppositional behaviors. Next, empirical examples offer theoretical and pedagogical contributions (ruptures) for nurturing all forms of resistance towards transformation. By disrupting punitive interpretations and responses that are imbued with racist and oppressive ideologies, we honor the potential for transformational resistance embedded in the “unrespectable” oppositional behaviors of Students of Color.
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This article introduces the “multiply produced film” as a methodology and analytic that highlights the asymmetrical dynamics inherent to collaboration. I draw on (auto)ethnographic material ...from the making of Get By (2014), a film on worker‐community solidarity, to explore collaboration across race, class, and gender in subject matter and method. I situate the multiply produced film within a genealogy that grafts ontological insights from the anthropology of exchange onto the epistemological contributions of feminist, decolonial, and visual anthropologists committed to collaboration. I argue that as a method, collaborative filmmaking has the potential to challenge narrow Western conceptions of autonomy and authorship through shared authority and fluid roles that engender a cascading multivocality that shapes the resulting filmic form. As an analytic, the multiply produced film reveals how collaboration entails a fundamental tension between the gift‐like exchanges of solidarity and the outwardly commoditized form (e.g., films, books) produced by such exchanges, raising questions about asymmetries of power, prestige, and accountability.
In 2017, the #MeToo movement swept across social media, making the pervasiveness of sexual assault visible to millions. People shared hashtags and stories often only told in intimate settings on a ...variety of platforms, exposing this issue to the multitudes. At its core, the #MeToo movement was a consciousness-raising effort, but it was occurring in a new mediascape that dramatically altered its spread, force, and impact. This paper examines #MeToo as it unfolded across wild public networks and, in doing so, resisted contemporary image practices, transformed the rhetor into what we term a rhizomatically networked collective, and expanded audiences.
In this paper, I address shortcomings in psychology's attempts at engaging with environmentalism, and provide a theoretical foundation from which psychologists can be more ecologically aware and ...contribute toward environmental and conservational efforts. I draw from feminist epistemology, and more specifically, ecofeminism, for nuanced and holistic ways to think about our place in, and ethical responsibility to the environment. Ecofeminism provides the necessary conditions for an ethical ecology that can translate into a theoretical groundwork for ecopsychology. I also discuss the ontological implications in a human/nature relationship, and make some suggestions for a causal theory of relational ontology for ethical ecology. In proposing a theoretical foundation for ecopsychology I am synthesizing ecofeminist epistemologies, relational ontology, and holistic perspectives on the human/nature relationship. Nature is here defined as the physical environment, including constructed and natural habitats, and all living organisms.
Christian Dayé provides an important history of RAND and its scientists/experts during the Cold War period. He lifts the veil off of a Cold War effort whose history is not well known. Given the ...cultural insecurities in America in the aftermath of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war and the developed nuclear capacities of the Soviet Union, he takes us into the 1950s and the terrain of RAND. We receive a deep, quite granular analysis of a select group of natural and social scientists who contend with the issue of Cold War cultural insecurity and the future. What does the future portend? The answers become bound up in a methodological journey articulated by Dayé that has implications for today. Given this, I pivot from Dayé’s groundings in a generalized cultural insecurity in America about the Bomb to a grounding that situates white male expert knowledge as not innocent of the U.S. racial order and racism. This narrative centering racism and the Cold War is fueled by radical Black Peace activists W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Claudia Jones and others who struggled intensely against the racialized realities of the Cold War. Their interrogations and activism shed light on the nature of knowledge production in a race based society. Indeed, the epistemological issues embedded in white expert knowledge production have implications for today. Claudia Jones provides a theory and practice during the Cold War period centering Black women and peace. Her triple jeopardy framework makes explicit the plight of Black women under racial capitalism. Contemporary Black feminists continue to pose hard questions about what it means to deploy a critical epistemological stance and the nature of expert knowledge production.
Socializing doctoral students the feminist way Palmer, Dajanae; Washington, Sylvia; Silberstein, Samantha ...
International journal of qualitative studies in education,
11/2022, Letnik:
35, Številka:
10
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This paper highlights the perspective of five doctoral students' socialization in a feminist focused research group. Utilizing collaborative ethnography, this paper challenges the current conceptions ...of graduate student socialization that emphasizes neoliberal values such as individualism and competition that is normalized within doctoral education. In this collaborative effort we highlight the lessons we learned and provide a critique of the norms of the socialization and intellectual growth based on our interactions with each other and faculty members of the Feminist Research Collective. This paper showcases the unique experience of each doctoral student. Each author provides first-hand accounts of the transformative work of participating in a research group that is feminist centered and based in an epistemology of care. We acknowledge the tensions we experienced in confronting our own held beliefs about the research process grounded in our own social conditions that are informed by our diverse backgrounds.
Critique, and especially radical critique of reason, is under pressure from two opponents. Whereas the proponents of "post-critical" or "acritical" thinking denounce critique as an empty and ...self-righteous repetition of debunking, the decriers of "post-truth" accuse critique of having helped to bring about our current "post-truth" politics. Both advocate realism as a limit critique must respect, but I will defend the claim that we urgently need radical critiques of reason because they offer a more precise diagnosis of the untruths in politics the two opponents of critique are rightfully worried about. Radical critiques of reason are possible, I argue, if we turn our attention to the practices of criticizing, if we refrain from a sovereign epistemology, and if we pluralize reason without trivializing it. In order to demonstrate the diagnostic advantage of radical critiques of reason, I briefly analyze the political and epistemic strategy at work in two exemplary untruths in politics.
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