What is it about?
The article highlights the challenges we faced obtaining approval for a photovoice project about identities. The dominance of one way of understanding knowledge (in this case a positivist starting point) directly contradicted another based on feminist and medical and health humanities (MHH) orientated ideas about knowledge.
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Why is it important?
When trying to undertake inter- or transdisciplinary work it is vitally important that we are rigorous and critically engaged but also motivated by care, curiosity, and humility so that we are able to learn from each. Allowing and developing epistemic generosity is vital if we are serious about thinking about health (and other important) social concerns and working out new ways to address them.
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There are shared challenges faced by feminist researchers and people involved in the field of medical and health humanities (or any interdisciplinary work) and exposing these and learning from them is important. Epistemic violence and professional undermining of researchers does not create a space for new and imaginative ways of addressing issues of social justice or inequalities. This article documents one set of struggles and suggests how we could do things differently in future.
Assoc. Prof. Carla Tsampiras
University of Cape Town
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This page is a summary of: Overcoming ‘Minimal Objectivity’ and ‘Inherent Bias’: Ethics and Understandings of Feminist Research in a Health Sciences Faculty in South Africa, Feminist Encounters A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, September 2018, Lectito BV,
DOI: 10.20897/femenc/3884.
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