situated knowledge

is about communities, not about isolated individuals. The only way to find a larger vision is to be somewhere in particular.

Situated knowledges are about communities, not about isolated individuals. The only way to find a larger vision is to be somewhere in particular. The science question in feminism is about objectivity as positioned rationality. Its images are not the products of escape and transcendence of limits (the view from above) but the joining of partial views and halting voices into a collective subject position that promises a vision of the means of ongoing finite embodiment, of living within limits and contradictions-of views from somewhere. (('Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective,': 590)

is an alternative to relativism which ultimately deals in a scientistic 'God-trick'... a vision from everywhere and nowhere equally and fully.

They are, Haraway stresses, the alternative to relativism which deals in the scientistic 'god-trick' of promising vision from 'everywhere and nowhere equally and fully', and denies the stakes in location, embodiment and partial perspective' (Richards SSS 1996:324)

is not just concerned with place, but rather with the situatedness of situated... that is, both space and place, and is tuned to resonance, not to dichotomy.

it is very important to understand that 'situatedness... doesn't necessarily mean place... so standpoint is perhaps the wrong metaphor. Sometimes people read 'situated knowledges' in a way that seems to me a little flat... i.e., to mean merely that your identifying marks are and literally where you are. 'situated' in this sense means only to be in one place. Whereas what I mean to emphasize is the situatedness of situated. In other words it is a way to get at the multiple modes of embedding that are about both place and space in the manner in which geographers draw that distinction. Another way of putting it is when I discuss feminist accountability within the context of scientific objectivity as requiring a knowledge tuned to resonance, not to dichotomy' (Haraway 2000:71).

is paradoxically the only perspective that promises objective vision because partial perspective is an objectivity about limited location and situated knowledge, not about transcendence and splitting of subject and object. It allows us to become answerable for what we learn how to see.

The moral is simple: only partial perspective promises objective vision. All Western cultural narratives about objectivity are allegories of the ideologies governing the relations of what we call mind and body, distance and responsibility. Feminist objectivity is about limited location and situated knowledge, not about transcendence and splitting of subject and object. It allows us to become answerable for what we learn how to see. ('Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective,'.: 582-83)

is the study of partial sight and limited voice; not for their own sake, but, rather, for the sake of the connections and unexpected openings situated knowledges make possible.

We seek those ruled by partial sight and limited voice-not partiality for its own sake but, rather, for the sake of the connections and unexpected openings situated knowledges make possible.

is a term that employs the word 'situated' is a strategic replacement for both 'relativist' and 'universalist.'

is the idea that knowledge is embodied, contextual, and positional and that by taking up a position and to be positioned is inevitably a question of ethics.

As Haraway (1988) pointed out, knowledge is inevitably tied to particular locations we inhabit... we all engage in situated knowledge' (a) knowledge is embodied, contextual, and positional and (b) that by taking up a position and to be positioned is inevitably a question of ethics' (in beyond risk).

is the idea that the object of knowledge ought to be pictured as an actor and agent (haraway 1991: 198).

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situated knowledge