Exploring the interactive space of the ‘outsider within’
Practising feminist situated knowledge in studying transnational adoption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12527376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yan Zhao (0009-0007-8186-9443, University of Nordland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 140-154 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5068 • E-ISSN: 1461-7420 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1350506814568361 |
| OpenAlex | W2332719620 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
Central to scholarly discussions within the field of feminist epistemology is the question of a researcher’s positionality and the subsequent impact on knowledge production. In particular, Donna Haraway’s elaboration of ‘situated knowledge’ has been highly influential. As an epistemological principle, this concept emphasizes the researcher’s embodied location within the research context. Yet the question remains, how does one apply this principle within the concrete practices of knowledge production? In a research project based on Norwegian transnational adoptees’ identity work, the author, being an immigrant, was situated as an ‘outsider within’. How does this positionality influence knowledge production? The concept of ‘outsider within’ comes from standpoint epistemology and has been taken up within black feminist thought to authorize knowledge about dominant society produced from a position of marginality. However as a concrete situatedness, can an ‘outsider within’ position also be used to think about the production of situated knowledge? This article offers an exploration of these questions. The author argues that one way to put feminist situated knowledge to use within an empirical study is through the conceptualization of ‘outsider within’ as a situated interactive space instead of a fixed standpoint
Aesthetics · Conceptualization · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist epistemology · Identity (music · Knowledge production · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Shaping transnational learning positions and understanding social work in context–students’ experiences of a short-term exchange program
Producing New Knowledge to Empower a Community
Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity. Adoption and Belonging in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Kinned to beNorwegian
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |