Hi Terry,
My assumption is that there are many differences from as many
different standpoints. However, from the standpoint of my embodied
experience, there is no difference, and as such, I cannot speak for
Fiona or any others. My epistemological position is that things
'exist' in the world just as I sense/perceive them, and my only
'proof' for that is my embodied experience of them. This does not
rule out the idea that what 'people are doing in the situation' will
be perceived differently from other perspectives. But that is my
point really, that there are a multitude of ways of 'looking,
thinking and feeling', and 'gender' is a lens I may use as a filter
for meaning-making. However, just as this is a filter, there are many
other social constructs I may choose as filters at any given time,
such as age, occupation, academic position etc. The assumption is
that meaning-making is dependent on standpoint. I concur with Gavin,
Sandra Harding is particularly smart in the field of standpoint
theory, as is Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography about social
relations.
best wishes,
teena
Harding, S. 2004a, Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader, Routledge, London.
Smith, D.E. (ed.) 2006, Institutional Ethnography as Practice, Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland.
>Hi Teena,
>
>I'm interested in your feelings about how much of the differences that
>yourself, Fiona and others see is what you bring in your looking, thinking
>and feeling and how much is in what people are doing in the situation?
>
>Best wishes,
>Terry
>
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>Hi all,
>
>Fiona talks about her embodied experiences in design research,
>sitting through meetings and listening to the various ways in design
>is perceived in a large faculty. I am curious to hear of others'
>personal experiences, and particularly welcome those not based on
>'proof'. In this call, I do not wish to debate 'validity' because
>from my epistemological position, all writing is fiction.
>
>Teena
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