Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Not All Clarities Are Created Equal: The Politics of “Opaqueness”
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2015
Abstract
A question such as the relative virtue of clarity as opposed to opaqueness in evaluating academic feminist writing makes sense in the context of institutional structures that produce most of the scholarship deemed viable by a very select group. Knowledge produced in the academy is a function of hierarchies. University systems are founded on Western epistemic assumptions coupled with competitive principles of survival. Their products are conditioned by a system of rewards and punishments, winners and vanquished; knowledge is generated by those working within the rules established by the academy and by those who border on going rogue. Since relations of power are a central concern of feminism, its academic position within these conditions makes its knowledge production suspect and necessitates the (re)deployment of strategies for survival.
Recommended Citation
Hurtado, Aída, and Cynthia M. Paccacerqua. "Not All Clarities Are Created Equal: The Politics of “Opaqueness”." Hypatia 30.3 (2015): 620-627. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12164
Publication Title
Hypatia
DOI
10.1111/hypa.12164
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