Reading-through be-longing

Towards a methodology for political sciences otherwise

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12499017
AutoresNora Siklodi (0000-0002-0061-5449, University of Portsmouth, autor de correspondencia), Seoyoung Choi (0009-0001-7603-3971, Yonsei University), Olivia Rutazibwa (0000-0002-1123-2355, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Año2024
Volumen30
Número3
Páginas145-170
Fecha de publicación2024-02-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/12259276.2024.2310768
OpenAlexW4391781345
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas73

Inspired by critical feminist, decolonial, and narrative approaches, this paper invites political sciences scholars to engage in different forms of knowledges (unlearning Western-centrism by centering Asia), (collective) methodology, and data collection (centering stories). We offer a pathway to political sciences otherwise, i.e., "as if people matter" and propose reading-through as a methodology for open-ended sensemaking at the service of pluriversal coexistence, prioritizing life in/and dignity over mastery or singular truths and fact-finding. Reading-through encompasses diverse practices of meeting, coreading, and co-writing, including exchanging thoughts on fictional/scientific stories in a "live" epistolary process paper. To articulate the substantive purchase of reading-through, we engage a selection of novels-Szabo's The Door, Faye's Small Country, Thy's Ru, and, especially Lee's Pachinko, a woman-centered multigenerational story on the Korean and wider (north)East Asian colonial/diasporic experience in the twentieth century-and revisit the political sciences theme of belonging as be-longing otherwise. Rather than offering a definitive blueprint for Political Sciences otherwise, this paper seeks a deeper understanding of how method and methodology are an integral, co-constitutive part of our capacity to fundamentally rethink learned disciplinary conventions towards scholarship "as if people matter

Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Science Research and Education · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics