positioning, n.Definitions

Positioning is assuming responsibility for one's own enabling devices (concepts fully as much as research grant monies.

Positioning is an ethic and a practice which defeats these rigidities of language and makes it possible for different sorts of identities and concepts of race, culture, and gender to emerge.

Positioning is reflective of a research ethic whereby any positioned or situated argument is necessarily also an invitation to others to critically respond to its partiality.

Positioning is a feminist practice committed to the situatedness and partiality of all claims to knowledge and hence contests the sort of essentialist rhetoric and rigid binarism as a cognitive mode (male/female, culture/nature) that has so biased questions of gender or 'otherness' in language use.

Positioning is grounded in the assumption that all work is incomplete and requires response (and thus engagement) from those in other positions.