Situated Knowledges

Contextual Citation

"I don’t think of co-research as militant research. My attempt is to affirm another epistemology and another practice of research in the social sciences. In this sense, my battle is also within the institutions of teaching and research, and it is feminist. My feminism has always been that of Carla Lonzi, that is, a feminism of difference, but difference understood as desire and as a political objective. In the field of knowledge production within the university environment, producing difference means, first of all, affirming, through practice and theory, another epistemology which, by freeing the sciences from positivist beliefs in neutrality and claims to universalism, affirms partial visions and the objectivity of situated knowledge. By renouncing the illusion, the claim, the divine myth of seeing everything and everywhere, it is a matter of learning to see with others, without claiming to see in the place of others, as Donna Haraway wrote in her beautiful essay “Situated Knowledges.” In this epistemological perspective, I see myself not so much engaged in militant research as in “involved research.” The keywords, then, are responsibility for the consequences of acting and knowing, commitment as an epistemic value, and sharing knowledge as a collective practice. "

- Antonella Corsani [1]