Syllabus
Weekly programme
1. Researcher-researched relations and dynamic objectivity
2. Standpoint epistemologies
3. Speaking for others
4. Situated knowledges and the politics of location
5. Research apparatuses and ontology
6. Silences, betrayal, failures
7. Mid-term Reading week
8. Attending to what is withdrawn or inaccessible: interviews as poetry
9. Drawings and graphic novels
10. Archival research and speculation
11. Diffractive readings
12. Diffracting intersectionality a detailed syllabus will be distributed at the first meeting.
Annotation
‘The word “research” is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world’s vocabulary’ (Smith 2012). This course examines some of the feminist and decolonial critique of extractivist knowledge practices and possible alternatives.
Introducing key theoretical debate and engaging case studies, including works by M.A. students at the faculty, we are investigating how feminist and decolonial principles can be put into practice. Is knowledge from below better knowledge? How should we speak for or about others? Can feminist research be objective? How do we account for researcher positionality and what do we make of silences, refusal, and betrayals in research?