Citation

Simandan D. Dialog. Human Geogr. 2019; 9(2): 129-149.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/2043820619850013

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Abstract

Feminist and queer epistemologies have been influential throughout the social sciences by means of the development of a set of interrelated approaches involving positionality, partiality, reflexivity, intersectionality, and the highly politicized thesis of situated knowledge. This article aims to operationalize these approaches by introducing an anti-humanist, politically attuned, and historically contextualized framework, which postulates that one's knowledge is inevitably incomplete and situated because information about the world always reaches one through a channel that is constituted by four epistemic gaps: (1) 'possible worlds versus realized world', (2) 'realized world versus witnessed situation', (3) 'witnessed situation versus remembered situation', and (4) 'remembered situation versus confessed situation'.

Language: en