6/10/2023 0 Comments Preverse notion definitionIn consequence all standpoints are seen as equally constructed and all claims to objectivity are annihilated. Relativism is denied any claim for objectivity by promoting a vision of differing opinions all rendered equal. This move described by Haraway as "the god trick" has deep ethico-political consequences: it renders all other positions invalid and subjective and – on this ground – denies subjectivity, voice, and presence. Furthermore, objectivity understood as impartiality and a "view from above, from nowhere" (589) is a perspective that under the guise of neutrality, or nowhere (but embracing all), hides a very specific position (male, white, heterosexual, human) and thus makes this position universal. On the one hand objectivity was compromised as only seemingly neutral and in fact overburdened by power relations. On an epistemological level the notion of situated knowledges is an effort to think outside the duality of objectivity-relativism that is both ineffective and harmful for feminist purposes. Demonstrating also that such planes are interrelated and not separate. ![]() ![]() The notion works on four planes simultaneously: epistemological, ontological, ethical, and political. ![]() 581) but continues to have far-reaching theoretical consequences that render it a useful and vibrant notion for thinking-with in many recent feminist debates. The term was born of a specific situation: "in scientific and technological, late-industrial, militarized, racist, and male-dominant societies… in the belly of the monster, in the United States in the late 1980s" (Haraway, 1988, p. Donna Haraway coined the term 'situated knowledges' in a 1988 essay entitled Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.
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