About the project
Feminist scholarship(s) offers critiques of orders and practices of inequality. But to what extent does it contribute to these itself? This project seeks to unpack tensions within critical feminist knowledge production, in order to explore how these contribute to the reproduction of social inequality and polarisation. The project explicates how the historical, social, political and affective processes – within which feminist scholarship(s) is embedded – shape whose and which knowledge is deemed legitimate/illegitimate. It asks: what and whose knowledge achieves status as credible, valuable and legitimate, why is this so, how does it become the subject of ongoing struggles and a source of the reproduction of inequality and affective economies within academia.
Objectives
To understand the epistemic, social, institutional and historical processes that position some forms of knowing and knowers as more legitimate than others.
Background
The research project is a development and continuation of my Academy of Finland funded project.
Financing
Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, 2019-2023
Cooperation
My most important collaboration partners are:
- Helene Aarseth, University of Oslo, STK, Norge
- Julie Rowlands, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
- Ana Luisa Munoz, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Susan Wright, Aarhus University, DPU, Copenhagen, Danmark
- Kirsten Locke, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Louise Morley, CHEER: Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research, University of Sussex, UK