Gender Sensitivity, Asymmetries, ‘Acroamatic Turn’ . A Renewed Approach to Some ‘Gendered’ Methodologies | Chapter 08 | Emerging Issues in Science and Technology Vol. 3
Gender Sensitivity, Asymmetries, ‘Acroamatic Turn’ . A Renewed Approach
to Some ‘Gendered’ Methodologies | Chapter 08 | Emerging Issues in Science and
Technology Vol. 3
In this contribution four interconnected assumptions are made and
explored as a normative interpretation of “what is at stake”. 1) It is
necessary to exclude any kind of narrow mono-disciplinary approach from the
analytical tools used by scholars in characterising contemporary global, alias
transnational, phenomena. Political philosophy and social sciences should use
both old and new conceptual tools, in the way of a reflexive paradigm, in order
to define supra individual identities (group identities). This would ensure
much greater efficacy in dealing with emerging cross-border issues. 2)
Therefore, hybrid syntagmas, such as “Gender Sensitivity”, “Moral Minority” and
“Adaptive Preference”, should be reframed given the coloured, prismatic facets
of the ever-changing global/ transnational scenario for the sake of peace and
emancipation. 3) In fact, these syntagmas should be taken into careful
consideration by social scientists and political thinkers particularly in the
case of ‘embedded analyses’, focusing on the real asymmetries of power existing
within national, international and transnational contexts. 4). The hermeneutic
approach, in the sense of the auditory/acroamatic dimension of qualitative
research methods, is therefore of great importance here, for the following
reason.
Methodology, in the sense of the discourse on how to do research
(method), coincides with the second-level reflection on hermeneutics, the
technique of interpretation of symbolical textures and compacts. The reason for
adoption of this methodical turning point is that of equipping social
scientists and political thinkers with a more suitable definition of
emancipatory issues and policies. This, in turn, is aimed at investigating the
durable and potential cross-border effects.
Author(s) Details
Barbara Henry
DIRPOLIS Institute
(Institute of Law, Politics and Development), Sant'Anna School of Advanced
Studies, Piazza Martiri Della Libertà 33, I-56125 Pisa, Italy.
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