neutrality and objectivity
Academic research, scientific knowledge, institutional claims, constructed technologies and theories are not neutral expressions of an objective truth.
- neutrality / objectivity upholds dominant systems
- post60s began critiques from feminist, indigenous, postcolonial scholars on academic authority
- destabilising this force by expanding boundaries of the framework through public, activist and participatory forms
- specific disciplines of study emerging from this (inside agents/be the change) as well as external resistance (can’t put it out from inside the house/the masters tools/the revolution will not be televised)
Instances
Section titled “Instances”- science is not neutral
- earth/technology is not neutral
- research is not neutral
- data is not neutral, but people assume data is true