"The Search For Situated Knowledge" Weekly Writting 4A

The words and phrases we use to illustrate a concept can be quite slippery as Flowers explains in the seventh chapter of her book. The concept of a "police-enforced youth curfew" evokes contradictory ideals on what the phrase actually means. We interpret these phrases differently based on our life experiences. Flowers labels how we make meaning out of a particular concept as "situated knowledge".  This knowledge Flowers calls "silent" because it is not typically shared. Flowers likens the use of this knowledge to making a home movie in the mind. She urges that we should embrace rival interpretations of what a "police-enforced youth curfew" means in order come to transform the understanding of the phrase. Ultimately, it is in the search for the story behind the story, that can make a difference. By examining multiple, even contradictory, interpretations of a "police-enforced youth curfew" we come to a greater understanding of what the phrase means.