Cultural Studies and the Politics of Representation: Experience ↔ Subjectivity ↔ Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2009
Keywords
evidence of experience, subjectivity, Joan W. Scott, autoethnography, performative writing, historicizing
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708609337894
Abstract
This essay examines Joan W. Scott’s (1991) essay “The Evidence of Experience” in light of cultural studies scholarship that uses personal, experiential evidence, and/or innovative/critical methodologies. The authors argue that the situated, (inter)subjective, and complex nature of this inquiry conscientiously has brought to life Scott’s call for historicizing experience, rather than blindly using it as foundational, and enthusiastically continues doing so to date. In this way, these critical methods already seek to problematize and complicate experience, even as it is used to talk toward and/ or against cultural norms.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
No
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, v. 9, issue 5, p. 597-607
Scholar Commons Citation
Berry, Keith and Warren, John T., "Cultural Studies and the Politics of Representation: Experience ↔ Subjectivity ↔ Research" (2009). Communication Faculty Publications. 388.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/388
