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The Thingness of the Thing
Brought to my attention, here in an excerpt from Sarah Childers’s review of Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science by Patti Lathers published in the Educational Researcher. Unfortunately this is supposed to be English and is not a joke.
“[Patti] Lather sees the possiblity for a ‘Foucauldian scientificity,’ an eruption of multiplicities and contingent scientificities that produce an ‘arena of struggle in broadening the definition of science.’ She is arguing for ‘a sort of post-methodology that bespeaks an end of grand narratives about reasearch’; such a methodology also offers a recuperative move for [education that is] under attack in the age of accountability. “Another type of scientificity is needed for the social sciences, a postpositivist, interpretive scientificity that takes into account the ability of the object to object to what is told about it.” Objectivity is resignified in response to the call of the wholly other. “The thingness of the thing has to be taken into account…”
Where do I pick up my copy?
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