Epistemic Resources And Struggles

Autor: Inna Perheentupa
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia ISBN: 9781529216967
Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia ISBN: 9781529216981
DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781529216967.003.0005
Popis: In this chapter, various types of epistemic resources for the movement are examined. By uncovering the different knowledge resources and how they connect with struggles within the feminist movement, the author suggests that feminism is becoming a politics of expertise. This concept focuses on feminist struggles over who and what kind of knowledge legitimize the adoption of a feminist subjectivity and the position of a feminist expert, thus raising the question of whose perspective counts. In connection with this, hierarchies and classed dimensions of feminism are also revealed. The author argues that the question of expertise is apposite beyond the Russian context, as more and more feminist knowledge is being produced outside traditional realms of feminism such as universities, for example in the various expanding digital spaces. However, it is suggested that the fact that the movement’s work focuses on knowledge dissemination undoubtedly augments the struggles over the correct epistemic resources.
Databáze: OpenAIRE