Beyond Haraway? Addressing constructive criticisms to the ‘four epistemic gaps’ interpretation of positionality and situated knowledges

The ‘four epistemic gaps’ interpretation of positionality and situated knowledges developed in the anchor article goes significantly beyond Donna Haraway’s original formulation of the thesis of situated knowledges. It does so by organizing the study of the processes that provincialize and politicize perception and cognition alongside a logical sequence of epistemic gaps that shape the quantity and content of information accessible to different subjectivities. In this contribution, I address four sets of productive tensions and constructive criticisms sparked by the anchor article and highlight how they can help fulfill the promise of a generative research program that engages multiple other voices