Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.1111/jftr.12473

Publication Title

Journal of Family Theory & Review

Volume

14

Issue

3

Pages

318-340

Abstract

Using Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools as an epistemic guide, we propose two practice interventions for family science (FS) transformative praxes. The first, inspired by the thought of philosopher Charles Mills, challenges FS practitioners (research, practice, and policy) to explore differences in peripheral and positivist & post‐positivist (P&PP) ideologies responsible for differences in beliefs regarding the salience or non‐salience of power differentials within FS. The second, inspired by the thought of philosopher Rudolph Carnap, encourages FS practitioners to consider differences in peripheral and P&PP practitioners' understandings of what FS is at its core, and the beliefs and actions guided by their divergent core understandings. Both revelatory practices are intended to transform FS in such a way that its praxes are informed by these ways of practicing, and so that embodied understandings of the importance of pursuing anti‐racist and social justice objectives within FS become manifest.

Comments

© 2022 The Authors.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) 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

Jones, J., Hunter, A. G., & Tarver, S. Z. (2022). Dismantling the master's house: Epistemological tensions and revelatory interventions for reimagining a transformational family science. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 14(3), 318-340. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12473

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