Kim Tallbear_StandingWithandSpeakingasFaith_CollaborationReading

<p><!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?--> In “Standing With and Speaking as Faith: A Feminist-Indigenous Approach to Inquiry” Kim TallBear (one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter!) addresses some of the “ethics of accountability” in research. She argues the binary between researcher and researched is the “crippling disease” of knowledge production (2). Even new modes of ethical knowledge production such as “giving back” rest on this violent divide. TallBear argues for researchers to not only have “care” for our subjects, but too find “shared conceptual ground and shared stakes with those among” you build knowledge. When we do this, TallBear argues, we move beyond a politics of “giving back” and towards a politics of “standing with” (4): how does this approach use the power of critiquing then? What theorists does she draw from to conceptualize “feminist objectivity?” What are “faithful knowledges for TallBear? She uses the term “overlap” (1) when talking about her intellectual, ethical and institution building projects? Is this more helpful than thinking of bridging the gap between theory and practice?</p>