Tactics of Legitimation in the Psychedelic Sciences : Lessons for Feminist Sociology of Knowledge
Corbin, 2012
"... I found that psychedelic scientists utilized a range of what I call tactics of legitimation to
justify the scientific study of these peculiar substances and the spirituality associated
with them vis-à-vis dominant scientific knowledges. Drawing on feminist theories
of science and knowledge, I analyze the attendant epistemological costs of this
assimilation in relation to the intersecting politics of race, class and gender. More
broadly, this project demonstrates how a feminist theoretical perspective on
sociology of knowledge enhances politically essential analyses of the co-constitutive
relationships between knowledge, power and consciousness."
Tactics of Legitimation in the Psychedelic Sciences
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