Investigating Cultures of Equality

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This volume explores the processes of investigating cultures of equality and sets out an epistemological framework for generating a more just and response-able knowledge. It offers a tapestry of inventive, self-reflexive, collective, and situated praxis of conducting a politically informed research. Such efforts contest--or occasionally reinvent--the social and cultural worlds that we currently inhabit, in an attempt at building cultures of equality across different locations and contexts. The book engages with the idea of producing knowledge with others, indicating the political potential of scientific practice and offering a view of knowledge as a collective affective-intellectual effort. It provides an inventory of creative engagements with concepts and methodologies enabling production of socially responsible knowledges. By critically exploring new possibilities of scientific inquiry, the contributors reflect on how knowledge can be generated to serve the political agenda of movements for equality and social justice. The chapters also elucidate different conceptualizations of and approaches to who the researcher is and how they interact with cultural and social worlds. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of contributors 1 Investigating Cultures of Equality: Relationality at Work in Situated Research 2 The Relationality of Knowing: From Economies of Care to Epistemic Justice 3 Creating and Contesting Knowledges at the Museo Migrante 4 (Re)situating More-than-human Knowledge: Material Entanglements in Laura Gustafsson and Terike Happoja’s Museum of Nonhumanity and Helena Hunter’s Falling Birds 5 Connecting Knowledge Production and Praxis: Circulation, Cooperative Constellations, and Collective Learning in Training for Gender Equality 6 ‘Bugs’, ‘Broken Binaries’, and Malware: Investigating Gender and the Human in Science Fiction’s Depictions of Technological Malfunction 7 Resisting Cultures of Inequality through Feminist Counter- Visuality Practices in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Non-Fiction Cinema 8 Female Masculinities in South Africa: Negotiations Around Belonging 9 Im/possible Pathways: The Politics of Place and Decolonial Cartographies in the Global South 10 On the Shore: Autoethnography and Reflexivity from a Black Feminist and Decolonial Perspective 11 ‘Uncommon for a Straight Boy to Quote Butler the Way You Do’, or Where Should I Speak My Feminism? 12 The Uses and Abuses of English Language within Feminist Academic Research Index