Dialogical Epistemology — An Intersectional Resistance to the «Oppression Olympics»

Yuval-Davis discusses the impact of Patricia Hill Collins's work on her own conceptualizations regarding partial, situated knowledge, and its basis in a dialogical standpoint theory. She analysis how important it is to recognize situated knowledge as not "the truth" but part of a dialogic relationship among subjects who are differentially situated and that can lead to "an approximate truth." She argues that feminists need to not only understand situated knowledge but also develop situated imagination, an epistemology that is crucial for the development of a transversal politics of solidarity. Such a politics is a response to both universalistic politics and identity politics, a transversal politics based on constant communication and cooperation, in which activists do not speak for a community, but instead are "reflective and conscious of the multiplexity of their specific positionings." As a result, transversal politics uses dialogic collective knowledge and imagination to develop shared values and encompass difference by equality.

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Gender & Society. – 2012. – Vol. 26, № 1. – P. 46–54.