Transcending objectivism, subjectivism, and the knowledge in-between: The subject in/of 'strong reflexivity'
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Authors
Hamati-Ataya, I
Publication Date
2014Journal Title
Review of International Studies
ISSN
0260-2105
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Volume
40
Issue
1
Pages
153-175
Type
Article
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Hamati-Ataya, I. (2014). Transcending objectivism, subjectivism, and the knowledge in-between: The subject in/of 'strong reflexivity'. Review of International Studies, 40 (1), 153-175. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210513000041
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This article addresses the<jats:italic>problématique</jats:italic>of the subject and the subject-object dichotomy from a post-objectivist, reflexivist perspective informed by a ‘strong’ version of reflexivity. It clarifies the rationale and epistemic-ontological requirements of strong reflexivity comparatively, through a discussion of autoethnography and autobiography, taken as representatives of other variants of reflexive scholarship. By deconstructing the ontological, epistemic, and reflexive statuses of the subject in the auto-ethnographic and auto-biographical variants, the article shows that the move from objectivism to post-objectivism can entail different reconfigurations of the subject-object relation, some of which can lead to subjectivism or an implicit positivist view of the subject. Strong reflexivity provides a coherent and empowering critique of objectivism because it consistently turns the ontological fact of the social situatedness of knowledge into an epistemic principle of social-scientific research, thereby providing reflexivist scholars with a critique of objectivism from within that allows them to reclaim the philosophical, social, and ethical dimensions of objectivity rather than surrender them to the dominant neopositivist tradition.</jats:p>
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