Within the philosophical field, epistemology is an area dedicated to the study of knowledge: its modes and circumstances, but also who can know it and under what conditions. This has been widely problematized by now-iconic authors such as Donna Haraway from the scientific field or María Lugones from a decolonial stance, to name just a few. In the case of the former, for example, we particularly consider her comments about the role of the "modest witness" (Haraway, 2004) in science. And that resonance here has to do with the problematization of the objectivity and/or neutrality of scientific knowledge. Regarding the sex-gender dimension, this is not only a problem of "women" in science, but also of who are considered legitimate subjects of knowledge and what knowledge is proposed as valuable. Through this call, then, we aim to expand and diffract these critical analyses to other dimensions and other subjective conformations (deformations, misinformation) that differ from the disciplinary epistemological knowledge about the world and about knowledge itself. In this sense, we believe that the possibility of developing situated dialogues around contemporary epistemological debates in our territories is fundamental to producing theoretical densities capable of accounting for a turbulent time. Dialogues that can not only diagnose but also conceptually intervene in the dominant matrices of intelligibility. This can lead us to various concerns: How is it possible to speak of "situated knowledge" without assuming the transparency of the researcher as a sine qua non condition? That is, without positioning ourselves in a place of self-invisibility. (How) do contemporary sociopolitical (and affective) frameworks affect thinking about the possibilities of knowledge, especially academic knowledge? What epistemological tools are (useless) for us in noticing the very webs of intelligibility in which we participate directly or indirectly? As well as questions about time, such as ruminative epistemology (Massón, 2023) or even asterisk epistemologies (Radi, 2020) that recover and/or propose travesti-trans-non-binary epistemologies.
Published: 2024-12-27