Comments on: Acknowledging, unlearning and relearning poverty knowledge https://depts.washington.edu/povblog/acknowledging-unlearning-relearning-poverty-knowledge/ All views and opinions are those of blog authors, not their institutions and funders Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:48:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Isaac Rivera https://depts.washington.edu/povblog/acknowledging-unlearning-relearning-poverty-knowledge/#comment-4 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:02:44 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/?p=530#comment-4 Hi Elyse,

Thank you for your post on this matter. This is a brilliant and timely post, that really challenges readers pre assumptions on the discourse of poverty. Viewing poverty relationally and through the various power structures that control the discourse, is something that I really appreciate. Where would you put this post, under the context of privileging knowledge over the “other”? I really think that this could lead to a much bigger project. Do you plan on expanding upon this post?

Isaac

]]> By: RPN https://depts.washington.edu/povblog/acknowledging-unlearning-relearning-poverty-knowledge/#comment-3 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 20:11:19 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/?p=530#comment-3 Elyse, this is a very effective post because it really engages the reader as a whole person. It engages with knowing as a reflexive process, rather than as a fact. This is vital for moving your readers into self-interrogation. I appreciate the accessibility of your writing and the personal register in which you model the work that you hope can happen.
In addition to Sarah’s question to you, I wonder if you can also push on the moments or situations that move you, or someone else into new realizations. When, where and how does this process take place? — Vicky Lawson, lawson@uw.edu

]]> By: RPN https://depts.washington.edu/povblog/acknowledging-unlearning-relearning-poverty-knowledge/#comment-2 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 20:10:52 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/?p=530#comment-2 Elyse, your step-wise engagement/re-working of that series of statement re: poverty is a really effective strategy in this piece. It makes visible a process of reworking, begins to model the reflexivity that may prompt new insights. As I was reading through the first reworked list, the negated statements, I thought it would be really interesting to ask readers to reflect on their own internal gut reactions to reading these statements that run orthogonal to normative poverty discourse. Both having *and* recognizing these reactions – unease, confusion, sense of wrong-ness, whatever – seem a central dimension in un/re-learning, because it may be what prompts people to ask something new. I wonder whether you have any thoughts on conceptual resources that help us think this latter moment: when/where/why people shift from reflection/the unease of reflection to asking something new. That is, I wonder how we get from the more personal/individual reflexivities that you center here, to a process of re-learning that is social / relational. This has been a sticking point for Vicky and I in our use of the encounter literature and our reading of our recent empirics. When/where/why do individual insights and reflexivities become social / relational in ways that lay the groundwork for alliance and action. That is, what conceptual frameworks help us think the transition from individual asking something new to social beings doing something new? This is a persistent question for us going forward. — Sarah Elwood, selwood@uw.edu

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