Feminism and the Critique of Violence: negotiating feminist political agency

The acute sensitivity of feminism to violence, in its many different forms and contexts, makes it a particularly interesting case for the examination of the relationship between politics and violence in theory and practice. Our purpose in this paper is not to adjudicate the normative question of whether feminism implies a commitment to pacifism or to the use of non-violence. Rather, we are interested in examining how the relation between feminist politics and violence is construed as feminists struggle to develop a politics in which opposition to patriarchal violence is central. We begin with the feminist critique of violence, and move to examine how particular articulations of that critique shape and are shaped by practices of feminist political agency in specific contestation over the goals and strategies of feminism. We use the well-known case of feminist debates over the Greenham Common Peace Camp in the UK in the 1980s to demonstrate how negotiating women's political agency in relation to opposition to male violence poses problems, both for feminists who embrace non-violence and prioritize the opposition to war, and for feminists who are suspicious of non-violence and of the association of feminism with peace activism. In both cases, the debates over Greenham demonstrate the fundamentally political character of the ways in which the relation and distinction between violence and politics are conceptually and practically negotiated

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Steps forward in the philosophy of information

This article highlights some of the key lessons learnt from a recent Symposium on the Philosophy of Information. Topics covered include: semantic information, information integration, and epistemic responsibility

Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM) and CAQDAS: an exercise of autobiographical research and methodological reflection

'In the first part of this paper the author examines how a need to study the intellectual roots of Grounded Theory Method (GTM) emerged out of reflecting on the authors personal GTM reception. In the process of this the author becames more and more methodologically aware of the nature, that is, the genesis and development, of GTM. Following this, he argues that a similar process of 'becoming aware of GTM' can be traced in the writings of Glaser and Strauss. At the same time, the whole paper is in itself an attempt at practicing GTM, conditioned by the published versions of GTM and the process of reception in his case. The author tries to gain awareness of both the intellectual roots of GTM and the process of his reception of this methodology. In this paper the author traces for the reader about the processual and contextual character of his GTM reception. The author shows how he finally reach the conclusion that the methodological principles of GTM existed before this approach was developed: they were not invented by the coiners of GTM. Moreover, he emphasises the existence of both professional and more private personal experience roots in the explicitation and genesis of GTM. In the second part of the paper, the author explores the conceptual trace and historical-biographical depth of the more comprehensive debate about the particular relation between GTM and CAQDASI. His main attention is the case of Glaser's posture as the 'epicenter' of the debate. The author shows the reader the way he proceeded in generating typologies of basic cases and processes to give context to Glaser's posture. This contribution is composed from an autobiographical point of view and style of research throughout.' (author's abstract

Nuclear Fiction within Nuclear Knowledge Management: Towards Energy Literacy

The presentation on the literary dimensions of ‘nuclear energy’ figurations in the contemporary nuclear fiction (on the example of the writing practices from the late Cold War till nowadays) demonstrates that ‘fabulously textual’ (Derrida, 1984) component of ‘the nuclear’ discourse went under transformations by shifting its references from the past (the Cold War atomic bomb literature) and from the future (the apocalyptic fiction) implications to the present one, emphasizing ‘nuclear energy’ in the context of sustainable development (nuclear policy, technology production, energy transition, nuclear explosions, uranium mines, nuclear waste management etc). Under such circumstances nuclear fiction can be regarded as a component of nuclear knowledge management (IAEA, 2020), in the aspect of its role in shaping nuclear awareness – a critical thinking about the possible benefits, risks and challenges of nuclear energy and contributes to a critical perception of nuclear energy issues – as a component of energy literacy.Peer reviewe