Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/V020609/1
Telling the Stories of Others: Applying an Ameliorated Concept of 'Culture' to the Subject Appropriation Debate
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Ms N Mehdi, University of Sheffield, Philosophy
- Grant held at:
- University of Sheffield, Philosophy
- Science Area:
- None
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- None
- Science Topics:
- Aesthetics
- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- Abstract:
- AHRC (WRoCAH) : Nadia Mehdi : AH/L503848/1 My research project will examine subject appropriation. I will argue that subject appropriation - the representation of a culture by an artist from another culture - is of moral concern when dominantly situated artists (men, white people, and so on) misrepresent the experiences and subjectivities of the oppressed given that misrepresentations further perpetuate marginalization. I will first develop an account of what misrepresentations are comprised of, something that has yet to be done in the debate regarding subject appropriations. I must then show, against popular philosophical belief, that it is indeed possible to misrepresent what is ultimately a fictional experience. Next, I must establish that it is possible for audiences learn from fiction. I will explore the phenomenological dimensions of fictions, those dimensions related to the experience of consuming fictions, to demonstrate that fiction can impart a knowledge-of-what-it-is-like to live with a marginalized identity. I will then determine why it is a problem for audiences to learn falsehoods about the oppressed, canvassing work in social epistemology to articulate the ways in which misrepresentations uphold oppression at both the material and ideological level.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/V020609/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- NC&C NR1
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Globalink Placement
This grant award has a total value of £12,609
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Exception - Other Costs | Exception - T&S |
|---|---|
| £10,919 | £1,689 |
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