On the politics of discomfort
On the politics of discomfort
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DOI：
10.1177/1464700120987379
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发表时间：
2021-01-20
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Chadwick, Rachelle
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作者：
Chadwick, Rachelle
本文将不适政治作为女权主义方法论和研究实践的一个关键但被忽视的维度。不适作为一种“汗流浃背的概念”被探索，为变革实践和女性主义形式的认识、存在和抵抗的出现开辟了空间。我将不适理论化，作为一种认知和解释资源，以及在研究遭遇、实地考察、分析和理论实践空间中的活跃行动者。在克莱尔·海明斯（Clare Hemmings）和萨拉·艾哈迈德（Sara Ahmed）的研究基础上，我发现不适是一种情感强度，对于打开抵抗和反殖民的女权主义研究实践和知识生产模式至关重要。从不适开始，并停留在不适的理论化中，这是对舒适和规范真理和“故意无知”的重复的一种抵抗。将后定性和后殖民女性主义理论家的工作编织在一起，不适的粘性实践被概念化为涉及许多研究策略，包括：(1)参与“直觉”和(2)接受解释犹豫。除了将移情理想化作为女权主义研究实践的核心情感原则之外，本文还探讨了不适作为情感强度、“出汗概念”和潜在的变革性解释资源的认识论和政治显著性。
This article engages the politics of discomfort as a critical but neglected dimension of feminist methodologies and research praxis. Discomfort is explored as a 'sweaty concept' that opens space for transformative praxis and the emergence of feminist forms of knowing, being and resisting. I theorise discomfort as an epistemic and interpretive resource and a lively actant in research encounters, fieldwork and analytic and theory-praxis spaces. Building on the work of Clare Hemmings and Sara Ahmed, I trace discomfort as an affective intensity that matters for opening up resistant and anti-colonial feminist research practices and modes of knowledge production. Starting, and staying, with discomfortis theorised as a form of resistance to the reiteration of comfortable and normative truths and 'wilful ignorances'. Weaving together the work of postqualitative and postcolonial feminist theorists, the sticky praxis of discomfort is conceptualised as involving a number of research strategies, including: (1) engaging with 'gut feelings' and (2) embracing interpretive hesitancy. In moving beyond an idealisation of empathy as the central affective principle underlying feminist research praxis, this article explores the epistemic and political salience of discomfort as affective intensity, 'sweaty concept' and potentially transformative interpretive resource.