ABSTRACT
The feminist, emancipatory research paradigm to which we were exposed in the last chapter, situated the knower in a particular context, from which co-creation ensued, between subject and object, self and other, scientific method and social scientific content. To that extent, the Mode 2 University, for us engaged in institutionalized Social Research and innovation, was contextualized within one or more particular places, and knowledge production was thereby distributed, within and between these, rather than centralized within a ‘Mode 1’ ivory tower. The notion then of a ‘situated’ subject, as a particular person, in a particular enterprise or community, is generic to the relational emancipatory feminist, approach to knowledge navigation. It is emancipatory, then as such, because such particularity, simultaneously recognizing and drawing upon marginalized voices, tends to buck the conventional, often singular, mono-cultural, uni-disciplinary, masculine norm.
