Joan Scott Experience Primacy of vision The privileging

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Joan Scott “Experience”

Joan Scott “Experience”

Primacy of vision • The privileging of vision as source of knowledge • Writing

Primacy of vision • The privileging of vision as source of knowledge • Writing is in the service of vision • Enlarging or completing the picture; making the invisible; illuminating the lives of others

Evidence of experience • Referential notion of evidence—reflection of the real • Experience as

Evidence of experience • Referential notion of evidence—reflection of the real • Experience as uncontestable evidence—evidence for the fact of difference • Originary point of explanation • Foundation on which analysis is based • Identity taken as self-evident • Meaning as transparent • Agency reified and decontextualised

Historicising experience • --stemmed from a critique of empiricism • --precludes analysis of the

Historicising experience • --stemmed from a critique of empiricism • --precludes analysis of the ideological system; reproduces its terms • --ignores that difference is constituted relationally • --historical processes position subjects and produce their experiences (p. 25) • --subjects are constituted through experience • --experience: that which we seek to explain, about which knowledge is produced (p. 26)

Experience as a foundational trope • Takes people as already constituted; naturalises categories •

Experience as a foundational trope • Takes people as already constituted; naturalises categories • --subjects seen as fixed and autonomous; • --reliable sources—access the real by means of experience

Between social structure and social consciousness (E P Thompson) • Experience as social being—the

Between social structure and social consciousness (E P Thompson) • Experience as social being—the lived realities of social life, incl the affective domains of family, religion and the symbolic domain of expression • --escape from strong structural determination, via feeling, agency, defies prediction • --relations of production are the common denominator, a unifying phenomenon: a common identity of class (that pre-exists politics) • --other subject positions subsumed: gender, race, sexuality

A critique • Contradictory and contested processes of identity formation • No smooth translation

A critique • Contradictory and contested processes of identity formation • No smooth translation from the personal to the political (lived experience of women does not necessarily lead to feminist consciousness) • Politics is about organising and interpreting experience • Experience is necessarily discursive (not outside signification and discourse) • Identity not simply found

Critique, contd. Processes of identity production Discursive nature of experience Politics of constructing experience

Critique, contd. Processes of identity production Discursive nature of experience Politics of constructing experience Experience is both an interpretation and in need of interpretation • Experience is not the origin of explanation but that which we want to explain • •

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