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This chapter considers the multiple locations of ‘the political’ in the bundle of social relations understood as scholarly knowing, and argues that at every stage where politics is located, there are opportunities to enact forms of justice. Drawing on previous work, and indebted to feminist thought, it is argued in the chapter that questions of politics, and more specifically questions of justice, inhere not only in objects of analysis or the frameworks mobilized, but in the social relations engendered in the act of knowing. Using Kirstie Dotson’s concept of ‘epistemic backgrounding’ to illustrate the way certain knowledge projects that appear concerned with justice can have limited purchase when they fail to prioritize the social relations engendered in the act of knowing, the chapter draw on two projects the author has been part of – the CREATE Initiative and the Gullah/Geechee Sustainability Think Tank – to demonstrate how a politics of ‘resourcefulness’ can promote justice in the process of scholarly knowing.
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Collins, P.H. (1999) Moving beyond gender: intersectionality and scientific knowledge, in Ferree, M.M., Lorber, J. and Hess, B.B. (eds) Revisioning Gender, London: Sage, pp 261–284.
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Dotson, K. (2012) A cautionary tale: on limiting epistemic oppression, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 33(1): 24–47.
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Ehrman-Solberg, K., Keeler, B., Derickson, K. and Delegard, K. (2022) Mapping a path towards equity: reflections on a co-creative community praxis, GeoJournal, 87(Suppl 2): 185–194.
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Fraser, N. (1995) From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a ‘post-socialist’ age, New Left Review, 212: 68.
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