Ikerkuntza feministarako epistemologiari eta metodologiari buruzko gogoetak

Abstract

Barbara Biglia presents an excursus in the field of feminist research epistemology and methodology that is oriented to social intervention and transformation. She interweaves debates on what we would like that research to be, what it is being and what could be a critical feminist approach to knowledge production: one that tries to come about those debates with examples that allow us “landing” theoretical reflections. First the article introduces the main feminist critics to science and explains why it is extremely important nowadays to rethink the ways of knowing, rather than focusing on scientists’ genderized identities. Next the author presents some of the challenges we face when we apply feminist epistemological proposals in a practical way on our researches. In doing so, she opens the “kitchen” of some of those researches, so that the debates do not remain in abstraction. In the second article, Ochy Curiel deals with the contributions of decolonial feminist to the building of critical feminist methodologies. She invites us to reflect on the theoretical, epistemological, methodological and ethical postulates of hegemonic feminist, which reproduce the coloniality of power, knowing and being. After clarifying the difference between postcoloniality and decoloniality, the author characterizes what is understood as postcolonial and decolonial feminism, and she makes problematic ideas such as standpoint, reflexivity, subject-object relation and intersectionality applied to feminist researches. At the same time, she questions the enunciation places and the positionings crossed by privileges based on race, class, sexuality and geopolitics of those that reproduce power logics in the production of knowledge. In the third article, Mari Luz Esteban analyses the circuits of knowledge in Basque feminism, that is, the main ways of generation and circulation of knowledge between different spaces and their transformations during the last decades. To do so, the author takes into account some peculiarities of feminism in the Basque Country, together with the hegemonic university culture and the social and political context that we live in. The article argues the need to make those circuits visible in their amplitude and complexity, as well as to better systematize relationships between different spaces. Specifically, the author analyse two feminist spaces of encounter: the lecture room and the women’s house (school of empowerment).