Turning away from epistemic violence by capturing a lived experience of the other

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-458
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Gut ◽  
Michał Wilczewski
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Indigenous Psychology ◽  
Epistemic Violence

We agree with Held’s (2020) arguments for establishing a research practice that prevents numerous forms of othering in mainstream psychological research, which is essentially derived from omitting concepts embedded in the lived experience of the other. However, we believe those arguments are not yet sufficient for fulfilling the true potential of such research practice. In this discussion, we focus on accessing a lived experience of the other as a means of preventing epistemic violence that contributes to the oppression of othered people. We suggest that researchers broaden their psychological perspective that detaches concepts and theories from personal experience. To truly meet the other, the narrative approach offers promising potential, as it captures an individual’s lived experience and subjective perspective. Finally, we stress the pivotal role of social interaction in concept and folk theory formation, which is necessary to implement Held’s postulations for Indigenous psychology.

‘B’ for Brexit or for Belonging?

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Lorena Georgiadou
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

In this article, I use my personal experience of being a UK-based EU national and researcher during ‘Brexit’ as a vehicle to explore how the ‘rise of the right’ may be affecting qualitative researchers, their practice, and the context in which their inquiry takes place. In particular, I explore the shift in my sense of belonging as a result of the Brexit vote and the impact that this has on my willingness to remain in Britain and on my research practice. I conceptualise ‘belonging’ as fluid and relational, and I highlight the central role that ‘welcoming the other’ can play in facilitating such processes. This then forms the foundation of my exploration of what I think we, as qualitative researchers, can do for our communities as a response to the recent political developments discussed in this special issue.

scholarly journals Remembrance, Retrospection, and the Women’s Land Army in World War I Britain

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie J. White
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
World War ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Problematic Relationship ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

This paper explores the methodological challenges posed by interviews with former members of the Women’s Land Army held in Britain’s Imperial War Museum. These interviews were conducted approximately 60 years after the First World War as part of the Women’s War Work Collection that was created in an effort to capture the role of women in the wars of the twentieth century. These documents are certainly of value to the historian, although the decades that passed between event and recollection highlight the problematic relationship between history and memory. The author argues that due to this temporal gap and the continuation of lived experience that shaped both identity and memory in the intervening years, the interviews lose their evidentiary primacy and must be approached as secondary sources, albeit ones grounded in personal experience. This challenge is exacerbated by problems with the interview process itself that guided how the Land Girls’ narratives were reconstructed by the interviewees. This paper works toward a re-evaluation of the usefulness of these oral interviews.

scholarly journals Only Cheap Talk after All? New Experimental Psychological Findings on the Role of Verbal Proficiency in Mate Choice

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin P. Lange ◽  
Christine Hennighausen ◽  
Michael Brill ◽  
Frank Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Menstrual Cycle ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Future Income ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
Self Presentations

Abstract Recent evolutionary experimental psychological research found that high verbal proficiency (VP) increased the perceived attractiveness of individuals (more so for males than females), especially in the context of a long-term relationship. Our study had the objective of replicating and extending this research. Similar to previous studies, audio files in which speakers performed scripted self-presentations that had equal content but varied on VP were used as stimuli for opposite-sex participants. VP was found to increase attractiveness ratings. The effects were mostly small for numerous variables relating to short-term mating, whereas they were moderate to large for long-term mating. Our participants attributed more future income, but not more total number of mates to speakers with higher VP. Female menstrual cycle effects on attractiveness ratings were not found. Contrary to former research, being more verbally proficient was not found to be more beneficial for one sex over the other.

Finding the Patient within: Managing the Transitions from Student Nurse, to Patient, to Nurse Therapist

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Bracey
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Severe Psychopathology ◽  
Analytic Training

The author recounts elements in her stay at a Therapeutic Community that enabled her as a mental health nursing student, to overcome resistance to acknowledging her own vulnerabilities. Reflecting on that experience, she identifies the qualities that professionals who experience `life on the other side' may emerge with, and the resultant benefits. The author focuses, finally, on her struggle to integrate the experience of having been labelled with severe psychopathology into her sense of self as she moves along a career path through the role of Nurse Therapist and on to group-analytic training, addressing the need for a more inclusive approach to validating such personal experience as something that might valuably inform clinical practice.

scholarly journals Effective Policy Applications of Psychological Science: Drawing Parallels between COVID-19 and Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehrgol Tiv ◽  
David Livert ◽  
Trisha Dehrone ◽  
Maya Godbole ◽  
Laura López-Aybar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Effective Policy

In 2021, the world continues to face a serious, widespread challenge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments and civil society are grappling with unprecedented impacts on healthcare and the economy as well as restrictions of normal social interactions of millions. Still, the climate emergency has not rested. Unless addressed, carbon levels will continue to rise through this pandemic, the development and disbursements of vaccines, and the next pandemic. From a psychological perspective, there are many commonalities between the current COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing crisis of climate change. This whitepaper begins by summarizing the broad similarities between these two crises. From there, we draw parallels between COVID-19 and climate change across four domains of psychological research. In doing this, we identify evidence-based approaches that policymakers and other key decision-makers can adopt to holistically respond to the two global crises of climate change and public health. We conclude with a broad discussion on the role of psychological science (and other social and behavioral sciences) in policy.

scholarly journals Penetrating and blunt injuries of the heart - an abdominal surgeon’s personal experience in Serbia

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-52
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Karamarkovic ◽  
Jovan Juloski ◽  
Vladica Cuk ◽  
Jovana Bojicic ◽  
Nemanja Karamarkovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blunt Trauma ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Chest Trauma ◽  
The Other ◽  
Penetrating Injuries ◽  
Cardiac Trauma ◽  
Penetrating Chest Trauma ◽  
Blunt Injuries ◽  
The World

Introduction. In the world with constantly increasing incidence of violence and trauma on one side, and more and more specialized surgeons on the other side; question about the role of abdominal surgeons in cardiac trauma emerges. Objective of this article is to show personal experience of an abdominal surgeon in managing heart trauma. Outlines of cases. We showed two penetrating injuries and one blunt trauma of the heart successfully managed by an abdominal surgeon. Conclusion. Abdominal surgeons should feel comfortable with the decision to operate on greatly physiologically deranged patients with penetrating chest trauma, and not to delay the operation with conservative measures or with time consuming transport to remote specialized facilities, since that could lead to greater death percentage of these patients.

scholarly journals Hypothetical Art and Art Education: The Educational Role of the Method of Hypothetical Artwork Modelling

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Jurij Selan
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Issue ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Theoretical Construction ◽  
The One

A hypothetical artwork is an artwork that exists only as a fictional creation of an art theorist. The explicatory powers of such hypothetical artworks are mainly used by an art theorist to reflect on an art theoretical issue under consideration. Such an artwork has an intriguing and paradoxical nature. On the one hand, it is only fictitious, but, on the other hand, it tries to function as a real token, persuading the reader to trust it as if it were a real artwork. Even though this kind of argumentation can be deceiving, as it presents a statement of real art on the basis of fiction, it has some important explicatory abilities that can be put to good usein the art educational process. In this case, the construction of the hypothetical artwork is handled as the construction of a theoretical model. The author calls such theoretical construction the method of hypothetical artwork modelling, and its result the hypothetical artwork model. Such a hypothetical artwork model can be usefully employed when one wishesto encourage the student to become fictionally involved in the process of creation of an artwork, thus giving him or her more personal experience of problems that accompany the process of creating a real artwork. When such hypothetical experience is gained, the student can more efficiently learn about the considered art issue. In the paper, the authordemonstrates how the explicatory powers of the method of hypothetical artwork modelling can be put into educational practice regarding an issue taken from colour theory (i.e., the primary colours fallacy). 

Hegemonic categorization of the other contributes to epistemological violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-383
Author(s):  
Louise Sundararajan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Indigenous Psychology ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
Epistemological Violence

Held (2020) missed one central concern of Indigenous psychology (IP), namely that hegemony of knowledge production in mainstream psychology (MP) is to be resisted. In this commentary, I identify two prevalent assumptions in MP that warrant resistance: first, to gain knowledge of the other is to categorize them; second, the use of neutral categories can reduce epistemic violence against the culturally different other. My critique is based on a cultural analysis of strong-ties versus weak-ties rationalities.

Governing Through Evidence: Participation and Power in Policy Evaluation

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Recent Evaluation

This article considers different approaches to policy evaluation within recent writings on governance and evaluation research. Governance theorists locate evaluation within a new ‘mode of regulation’ aimed at managing a ‘dispersed state at arms length’. The strength of this approach is that it places policy evaluation within an explicitly political framework. However, the governance perspective focuses on evaluation as a state-centred activity and tends to underplay its contested nature. Within the evaluation research literature, on the other hand, attempts to deal with the ‘politics of evaluation’ tend to focus on evaluation as a research practice. This misses the discursive construction of evaluation as a political project. While some approaches within the evaluation literature stress the ‘democratising’ role of ‘stakeholder participation’, they are set within a democratic pluralist model of politics, which frequently fails to deal with underlying power relations within which the clash of competing stakeholder interests takes place. This article challenges these constructions. It draws on the strengths of both approaches to propose a critical ‘politics of evaluation’ based on service user control. It suggests some practical strategies drawn from a review of recent evaluation research.

Making feminist claims in the post-truth era: the authority of personal experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-267
Author(s):  
Shelley Budgeon
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
The Face ◽  
Mainstream Culture ◽  
Feminist Practice

The increased visibility of feminism in mainstream culture has recently been noted, with the presence of both online and offline campaigns embedding feminist claims in a variety of everyday spaces. By granting recognition to women’s experiences, these campaigns continue the feminist practice of generating critical knowledge on the basis of gendered experience. In the post-truth era, however, the norms governing claims-making are being significantly reconstructed, with significant consequences for critiques of gender inequality. It is argued here that these norms are linked directly to a wider context of anti-feminism in which dismissing women’s claims is consistent with the goal that opponents of gender equality have of seeking and consolidating epistemic power in the face of what is perceived as systemic male disadvantage and victimhood. Returning to earlier debates within feminism, it is argued that the kinds of post-truth rhetoric used to dismiss women’s experience provide a challenge that feminism must confront. This rhetoric is often grounded in the authenticity of individual experience; however, experience cannot provide unmediated access to truth and, therefore, cannot provide the foundation for feminist claims. On the other hand, experience cannot merely offer one of many contested versions of ‘reality’. The excesses of both foundationalist and anti-foundationalist epistemology are countered with the argument that cognition is a human practice mediated by theoretical propositions which illuminate the question of what can be known. This is the role played by feminist theory in defending the role of experience.

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