scholarly journals Power, Knowledge, and Epistemic Delinking

2017 ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Aneta Stojnić
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Central Argument

In this paper I shall argue that radical epistemic delinking has a key role in liberation from the Colonial Matrix of Power as well as the change in the existing global power relations which are based in the colonialism and maintained through exploitation, expropriation and construction of the (racial) Other. Those power relations render certain bodies and spaces as (epistemologically) irrelevant. In order to discuss possible models of struggle against such condition, firstly I have addressed the relation between de-colonial theories and postcolonial studies, arguing that decolonial positions are both historicising and re-politicising the postcolonial theory. In my central argument I have focused on the epistemic delinking and political implications of decolonial turn. With reference to Grada Killomba I have argued for the struggle against epistemic violence through decolonising knowledge. Decolonising knowledge requires delinking form Eurocentric model of knowledge production and radical dismantling the existing hierarchies among different knowledge. It requires recognition of the ‘Other epistemologies’ and ‘Other knowledge’ as well as liberation from Western disciplinary and methodological limitations. One of the main goals of decolonial project is deinking from the Colonial Matrix of Power. However, delinking is not required only in the areas of economy and politics but also in the field of epistemology. Article received: June 15, 2017; Article accepted: June 26, 2017; Published online: October 15, 2017; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Stojnić, Aneta. "Power, Knowledge, and Epistemic Delinking." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 14 (2017): 105-111. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i14.218

scholarly journals A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel K. Staffa ◽  
Maraja Riechers ◽  
Berta Martín-López
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Cultures ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Taking Care

AbstractTransdisciplinary Sustainability Science has emerged as a viable answer to current sustainability crises with the aim to strengthen collaborative knowledge production. To expand its transformative potential, we argue that Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science needs to thoroughly engage with questions of unequal power relations and hierarchical scientific constructs. Drawing on the work of the feminist philosopher María Puig de la Bellacasa, we examine a feminist ethos of care which might provide useful guidance for sustainability researchers who are interested in generating critical-emancipatory knowledge. A feminist ethos of care is constituted by three interrelated modes of knowledge production: (1) thinking-with, (2) dissenting-within and (3) thinking-for. These modes of thinking and knowing enrich knowledge co-production in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science by (i) embracing relational ontologies, (ii) relating to the ‘other than human’, (iii) cultivating caring academic cultures, (iv) taking care of non-academic research partners, (v) engaging with conflict and difference, (vi) interrogating positionalities and power relations through reflexivity, (vii) building upon marginalised knowledges via feminist standpoints and (viii) countering epistemic violence within and beyond academia. With our paper, we aim to make a specific feminist contribution to the field of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science and emphasise its potentials to advance this field.

scholarly journals Postcolonial theory and false dichotomies

HISTOREIN ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Monika Bobako
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
Epistemological Perspectives

The very conceptual framework that structures Chris Lorenz’s argumentation in his book Bordercrossing is based on the contraposition of the two epistemological perspectives, named as “objectivism” and “relativism”, that are both supposed to be overcome in Lorenz’s own analysis. However, this framework is responsible for a number of interpretative inadequacies in Lorenz’s book – mainly because it is unable to grasp the ways in which power relations influence knowledge production processes and to account for the situatedness of any knowledge, including the one produced in a discipline of history.<br />

scholarly journals Images of the East in the Short Fiction of Ivan Bunin

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kata Juracsek
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
The One ◽  
Second World

The article examines the images of the East in the short fiction of Ivan Bunin. With the help of the narrative model of Jan van der Eng, consisting of three basic thematic levels (action, characterization, geographical and social setting) we read and arrange the works of Bunin through the prism of postcolonial criticism. On the one hand, we will consider the arguments of traditional postcolonial studies; on the other hand, we will also take into account the postcolonial theory regarding the “second world” (Russia, Eastern and Central Europe).We start our analysis with the texts in which images of the East are only featured on one thematic level, gradually directing our attention towards the short stories in which these images determine the whole semantic structure.

Animal Politics

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Eva Meijer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Institutional Violence ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Direct Violence ◽  
Political Exclusion

Chapter 4 challenges political anthropocentrism. It first discusses critiques of anthropocentric interpretations of politics from the perspective of justice. These critiques are important, but we also need to investigate the power relations that have shaped our understanding of politics, and investigate the different forms of institutional and epistemic violence that play a role in these processes. Our systems of knowledge, which are interconnected with cultural practices, intersect with political exclusion. While humans recognize direct violence towards other animals, institutional violence is often not recognized because it is interconnected with epistemic violence, rendering it invisible. Language plays a role in this process. Other animals are formally excluded from political institutions and practices because they do not speak, which refers back to a view of language as exclusively human, and this view is interconnected with cultural practices and knowledge production. Challenging this requires rethinking politics with other animals. Non-human animals exercise political agency, and recognizing this is part of seeing them as full persons. In addition to analyzing power relations, we should aim to get a better view of what constitutes a good life for them, and develop new forms of politics in interaction with them.

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.

scholarly journals Negros(as) intelectuais: descolonizando o saber e o poder

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Evaldo Ribeiro OLIVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Black People ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Research Objects

O presente trabalho busca discutir a importância dos intelectuais negros e negra para a construção de novas epistemologias, com o intuito de repensar o poder e a produção de conhecimento. Para tanto, se localiza dentro do contexto de lutas da população negra, não estamos falando de objetos de pesquisa, mas sim, de sujeitos produtores: de suas histórias; de suas pesquisas; suas epistemologias; seus lugares de fala. Desta forma, apresenta o contexto, demarcado pelas relações de poder, de colonialidade e descolonização. E apresentado uma breve compreensão do termo intelectual e por fim, aponta como “caminho”: o “outro da razão”, uma epistemologia desde o Sul, uma outra epistemologia, não hegemônica. Negros Intelectuais. Descolonização. Epistemologias Intellectual Black People: decolonizing knowledge and power ABSTRACTThis work aims to discuss the importance of the intellectual black men and women to the construction of new epistemologies, in order to rethink the power and the knowledge production. Therefore, it’’s placed inside the context of the black people movements, not by means of research objects, but subjects that build their own histories, their own researches, epistemologies and place of speech. In this way, it’s presented the context, surrounded by power relations, of coloniality and decoloniality. Also, a brief comprehension of the intellectual concept and lastly, it’s pointed as a “way”: the “other side of the line”, a south epistemology, and another, one that is not hegemonic. Intellectual Black People. Decolonization. Epistemologies

Disappointment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrett Zigon
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Critical Hermeneutics ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Drug War ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Metaphysical Humanism

For many today politics is characterized above all else by disappointment. Inspired by years of ethnographic research with the global anti-drug war movement, Disappointment addresses this disappointment by offering a framework for a politics that rises to the demand of our radical finitude. A politics that rises to the demand of radical finitude is a politics that finds its problems, antagonists, motivations, strategies, tactics, in a word, its call to action, in a world grounded in nothing other than the situations and existents that constitute it. This book takes up the challenge of offering such a framework by showing how ontological starting points have real political implications. A central argument of World-Building is that what is normally called ontology, politics, and ethics are actually three aspects or modalities of the same tradition, and therefore a critical engagement with one necessitates a critical engagement with the other two; that is, with the ontological tradition as a whole. This realization allows us to see how an alternative ontological starting point may lead to alternative political and ethical possibilities. With this as its task, Disappointment offers a critical hermeneutics of the dominant ontological tradition of our time and does so by means of both deconstruction and conceptual creativity. The politics of world-building that results seeks to move beyond metaphysical humanism and its exhausted concepts such as rights, responsibility and dignity, and begin to enact an ontology of worlds by means of such concepts as situation, dwelling, and attunement.

Knowing the other/other ways of knowing: Indigenous feminism, testimonial, and anti-globalization street discourse

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Isabel Dulfano
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Indigenous Feminism ◽  
Western Development ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, I explore the relationship between anti-globalization counter hegemonic discourse and Indigenous feminist alternative knowledge production. Although seemingly unrelated, the autoethnographic writing of some Indigenous feminists from Latin America questions the assumptions and presuppositions of Western development models and globalization, while asserting an identity as contemporary Indigenous activist women. Drawing on the central ideas developed in the book Indigenous Feminist Narratives: I/We: Wo(men) of An(Other) Way, I reflect on parallels and counterpoints between the voices from the global street movement, “other” epistemologies (identified hereafter), postcolonial theory, and contemporary Indigenous feminist theorization.

Relations of difference: Power and inequality in intersectional and postcolonial feminist theories

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 846-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Kerner
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
The One ◽  
Gender Groups ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

Feminist theory has addressed relations of difference, heterogeneity, and hierarchy within gender groups as well as the entanglement of various forms of differentiation, power, and inequality for a long time. This does not mean that there was unanimity with regard to the best way of doing this, though. Today, we can distinguish different approaches in this regard, and there is contestation about both the analytical and the political advantages and pitfalls of each of them. This article concentrates on two of these approaches: on the one hand on intersectional ones, which strongly focus on inequality; and on the other hand on postcolonial feminist theories, which put the emphasis on global power relations and interactions. The article discusses select positions of both intersectional and postcolonial feminist theories in conjunction, and argues why and how they should be conceptualized as complementary.

Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and Now

MediaTropes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. i-xvi
Author(s):  
Jordan Kinder ◽  
Lucie Stepanik
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
Ecological Relations ◽  
The One

In this introduction to the special issue of MediaTropes on “Oil and Media, Oil as Media,” Jordan B. Kinder and Lucie Stepanik provide an account of the stakes and consequences of approaching oil as media as they situate it within the “material turn” of media studies and the broader project energy humanities. They argue that by critically approaching oil and its infrastructures as media, the contributions that comprise this issue puts forward one way to develop an account of oil that further refines the larger tasks and stakes implicit in the energy humanities. Together, these address the myriad ways in which oil mediates social, cultural, and ecological relations, on the one hand, and the ways in which it is mediated, on the other, while thinking through how such mediations might offer glimpses of a future beyond oil.

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