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Patterns of Knowing and Being in the COVIDicene: An Epistemological and Ontological Reckoning for Posthumans
Brandon Blaine Brown1, Jessica Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins-Walsh
1College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington (Blaine Brown); Department of Physiological and Technological Nursing, Augusta University College of Nursing, Augusta, Georgia (Dr Dillard-Wright); Connell School of Nursing Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (Hopkins-Walsh); College of Nursing, The University of Arizona, Tucson (Littzen); School of Nursing, The University of Portland, Olympia, Washington (Littzen); and School of Nursing, University of Connecticut, Storrs (Vo).
Abstract:
The crucible of the COVIDicene distills critical issues for nursing knowledge as we navigate our dystopian present while unpacking our oppressive past and reimagining a radical future. Using Barbara Carper's patterns of knowing as a jumping-off point, the authors instigate provocations around traditional disciplinary theorizing for how to value, ground, develop, and position knowledge as nurses. The pandemic has presented nurses with opportunities to shift toward creating a more inclusive and just epistemology. Moving forward, we propose an unfettering of the patterns of knowing, centering emancipatory knowing, ultimately resulting in liberating the patterns from siloization, cocreating justice for praxis.
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