Can Citizenship Break with its Past?

Our thinking is always located. We not only think in a location, but from and through a situated problematisation of life. In her now classic text, Donna Haraway wrote: “Feminist objectivity is about limited location
and situated knowledge, not about transcendence and splitting of subject and object. It allows us to become answerable for what we learn how to see” (Haraway, 1988, p. 583). Locatedness, whether temporal, spatial,
social, institutional, or conceptual, never merely bounds and limits, but more importantly agitates and projects our attempts to comprehend and articulate. Partial connections with others, in other places and other times, are all too often misrepresented as generalities and universals, as
an abstract order that seems to exist outside of history and life (Strathern, 2004). Yet, our common responsibilities can only bear the weight of such abstractions as long as they remain grounded in concrete situations.