Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.1111/jftr.12476

Publication Title

Journal of Family Theory & Review

Volume

14

Issue

3

Pages

384-403

Abstract

We advance a transformational family science as an engaged practice that may serve social justice and an anti‐racist project. Our companion paper proposed epistemic revelatory interventions through which family science may re‐imagine itself. We highlight pillars of a transformational family science that (a) build with epistemological and paradigmatic stances of peripherals; (b) infuse an ethic of reflexivity, accountability, and responsibility in the pursuit of knowledge claims, and their validation; and (c) engage a critical interrogation of difference and power relations and the disruption of systemic and structural inequalities in which they are aligned. Informed by epistemic praxes, transformational praxes include inquiry, knowledge production, theorizing about structured inequalities, power differentials, and differences bound to social categories and social identities, as well as pedagogy and professional training. Transformative applications that are compensatory, reformative, restorative, reparative, and transformative may be used in multiple ways to advance social justice, anti‐racism, and social transformations.

Comments

© 2022 The Authors.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

ORCID

0000-0001-7257-9582 (Tarver)

Original Publication Citation

Hunter, A. G., Tarver, S. Z., & Jones, J. (2022). Transformational family science: Praxis, possibility, and promise. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 14(3), 384-403. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12476

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