2015/03/01 by Andrea J. Nightingale, Nightingale, Andrea · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Data Analysis and Archiving #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics #epistemology #feminist methodology #interpretive methodology #methodological contexts #natural resource management #partial knowledge #positionality #positivist science #situated knowledge
paper · pdf · doi:10.14288/acme.v2i1.709
openalex publication_date 2015/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
Donna Haraway’s (1991) concept of partial or situated knowledges has been a major influence on feminist methodological debates within geography. In this paper, I argue that geographers can interrogate the partiality of knowledge by developing research designs that incorporate methods derived from different epistemological traditions. The silences and gaps between data sets can be explored to interrogate the partiality of knowledge produced in different theoretical and methodological contexts. Also, advocates of interpretive methodologies can add substantially to theoretical debates over epistemology by demonstrating how the results from all methods are incomplete and subject to power – and positionality – laden interpretations. Using different methods is one way to highlight this issue and to challenge the hegemony of positivist science within mainstream academic and policy circles.