This short course explores the relationship between situated knowledge and cultural expertise by examining how knowledge is produced, authorised, and mobilised in legal and institutional contexts. Drawing on feminist epistemology, socio-legal studies, and critical theory, it asks how positionality, power, and experience shape what counts as valid knowledge, and how this becomes relevant when courts, administrations, and other institutions encounter cultural difference. The course therefore approaches cultural expertise not simply as specialist input, but as a broader epistemic and political practice situated at the intersection of law, culture, and authority.
This course was developed by Livia Holden.
