This paper begins with a brief overview of the origins and continued use of standpoint theory in the social sciences. It highlights both historical and contemporary challenges to the utility of standpoint theory as a critical scholarly tool, including developments such as intersectionality and transgenderism / transracialism. Specifically, the implications of a post-truth era for standpoint theory are considered alongside the affective turn, purity politics and the critique of critique. Given the slow, but steady, erosion of the ivory tower in which academics enjoyed privileged access to ‘truth’, this paper concludes with the need to foster scholar activism via new forms of knowledge politics that move beyond existing approaches to standpoint theory.

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后真理世界中的威特立场理论？

本文首先简要概述了立场理论的起源以及在社会科学中的继续使用。它突显了立场理论作为一种重要的学术工具的实用性的历史和当代挑战，包括诸如交叉性和跨性别主义/跨种族主义的发展。特别是，考虑了后真理时代对立场理论的影响，以及情感转向，纯洁政治和批评。鉴于象牙塔的缓慢但稳定的侵蚀，使学者们享有“真相”的特权，本文得出结论，有必要通过超越现有观点理论方法的新型知识政治形式来培养学者行动主义。