@inbook{30c34642ec5549d1a64f4c1dee2ea0d5,
title = "A Feminist Cartography of Critical New Materialist Philosophies",
abstract = "In {\textquoteleft}Situated Knowledges{\textquoteright}, feminist science studies scholar – and, as will be argued in this chapter, critical new materialisms scene-setter – Donna Haraway (1988) reveals her own politicised {\textquoteleft}electroshock{\textquoteright} (578) therapeutic take on epistemology and what it means to create knowledge from the ground up. She builds her argument upon Marxist, historical and feminist materialisms, the rich tradition of feminist epistemology and, above all, Sandra Harding{\textquoteright}s (1986, 1987, 1991) standpoint theory. Connecting the foregoing philosophies to the Foucauldian idea of power/knowledge (Foucault 1990 [1976], 1995 [1975]) and a critique of disembodied, objectifying vision, Haraway conceptualises her materialist project along four criss-crossing axes, namely: ontology (theorising what the world is); epistemology (theorising about how to see the world as it is); ethics (theorising why the world is as it is and how it ought to be); and politics (theorising how to effectively change the world). It is in the thought-provoking assemblage of these four philosophical domains that Haraway{\textquoteright}s eco-philosophy sets the framework for what this chapter describes as critical new materialist philosophies. ",
keywords = "New materialisms, Critical posthumanism, Posthumanism, Continental philosophy, Feminist philosophy, Critical theory, Materialism, Cartography, Haraway, Bloch, Benjamin, Historical materialism, Ecofeminism, Critical new materialisms, Situated knowledges, Feminist methodologies",
author = "Evelien Geerts",
year = "2024",
month = feb,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1515/9781399530071-008",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781399530057",
series = "New Materialisms",
publisher = "Edinburgh University Press",
pages = "78--104",
editor = "Felicity Colman and {van der Tuin}, {Iris }",
booktitle = "Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1",
}