%0 Journal Article
%T Revisiting positionality and the thesis of situated knowledge
%A Dragos Simandan
%J Dialogues in Human Geography
%@ 2043-8214
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2043820619850013
%X Feminist and queer epistemologies have been influential throughout the social sciences by means of the development of a set of interrelated approaches involving positionality, partiality, reflexivity, intersectionality, and the highly politicized thesis of situated knowledge. This article aims to operationalize these approaches by introducing an anti-humanist, politically attuned, and historically contextualized framework, which postulates that one¡¯s knowledge is inevitably incomplete and situated because information about the world always reaches one through a channel that is constituted by four epistemic gaps: (1) ¡®possible worlds versus realized world¡¯, (2) ¡®realized world versus witnessed situation¡¯, (3) ¡®witnessed situation versus remembered situation¡¯, and (4) ¡®remembered situation versus confessed situation¡¯
%K feminist and queer epistemologies
%K intersectionality
%K memory
%K politics of knowledge
%K social difference
%K social justice
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2043820619850013