What are some of the problems of ‘speaking for others’ and how have critical scholars engaged with the politics of representation?

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  • Alcoff, L. (1995) “The Problem of Speaking for Others”, in Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman, eds Who Can Speak: Authority and Critical Identity. University of Illinois Press: 97-119.
  • Brah, A. (2012) ‘The scent of memory: strangers, our own and others’. Feminist Review, 100 (1), pp.6–26.
  • Varley, A. (2008) ‘A place like this? Stories of dementia, home, and the self’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Vol.26, 47–67
  • Kulick, D. (2015). The problem of speaking for others redux: Insistence on disclosure and the ethics of engagement. Knowledge Cultures, 3(06), 14-33.
  • Roof, J., & Wiegman, R. (Eds.). (1995). Who can speak?: Authority and critical identity. University of Illinois Press.
  • Anzaldúa, G, 2007. Borderlands = La frontera : the new mestiza 3rd ed., San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books. Chapter 7, ‘La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a new consciousness’ p77-91
  • Intemann, K (2016) ‘Feminist Standpoint’ in Disch, L., Hawkesworth, M. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Haraway, D. (1988) “Situated Knowledges; the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, Feminist Studies. 14, 3: 581-607.

  • Lorde, A (2001) ‘The master’s Tools will never dismantle the master’s house’, in C. Moraga and G. Anzaldúa (eds) This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Berkeley CA: Third Woman Press, 98-101.

  • Scott, J. W. (1991) ‘The Evidence of Experience’, Critical Inquiry 17.4: 773-797

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