I sent a similar message to this one last evening. I intended it for
the list, but it went only to Eric (I didn't double-check the reply
address) - I wrote there...
On my reading, when Mairian used the term 'sensitive' she was doing so
to refer to her disciplinary practice of being self-critical, which
includes recognizing the ways in which one's situatedness entails that
one's analyses of social phenomena are partial and value-laden. This of
course flies in the face of positivist notions of a disinterested and
value-neutral objectivity, the existence of which is a compliment that
some (but not all) social "scientists" remain determined to confer upon
their analyses.
best regards, Shelley
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