scholarly journals Mansplaining as Epistemic Injustice

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Dular
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Model ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
The Common ◽  
Testimonial Injustice

“Mansplaining” is by now part of the common cultural vernacular. Yet, academic analyses of it—specifically, philosophical ones—are missing. This paper sets out to address just that problem. Analyzed through a lens of epistemic injustice, the focus of the analysis concerns both what it is, and what its harms are. I argue it is a form of epistemic injustice distinct from testimonial injustice wherein there is a dysfunctional subversion of the epistemic roles of hearer and speaker in a testimonial exchange. As these are roles of power and are crucial to our existence and functioning within epistemic communities, the wrong and harms suffered from this injustice are serious and, I argue, distinct from other types already discussed in the literature. I close by considering an alternative model of mansplaining as a form of silencing, as well as briefly diagnosing its general underlying cause and possible solutions.

scholarly journals What Should We Do as Intellectual Activists? A Comment on the Ethico-political in Knowledge Production

2021 ◽  
pp. 247-258
Author(s):  
Anna Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Political Research ◽  
Data Book ◽  
The Creation

AbstractThis research comment makes an argument on the need to develop epistemic communities of belonging. These are spaces facilitating conversations about and enabling transformative ethico-political research. A research practice that can invoke attentiveness, responsibility, curiosity, and awareness to the field we study. Rather than answering what we should do as intellectual activists to maintain ethically integrity, the author here investigates the spaces we may develop as intellectual activists. Based on her work in the transformative collective initiative, the Asylum Commission and the reading of the Caring for Big Data book, the author proposes two concepts that are valuable for the creation of such spaces: epistemic injustice and hope.

scholarly journals ‘Isn’t Everyone a Little OCD?’ The Epistemic Harms of Wrongful Depathologization

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucienne Spencer ◽  
Havi Carel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Testimonial Injustice

This article develops the concept of wrongful depathologization, in which a psychiatric disorder is simultaneously stigmatized (because of sanist attitudes towards mental illness) and trivialized (as it is not considered a “proper” illness). We use OCD as a case study to argue that cumulatively these two effects generate a profound epistemic injustice to OCD sufferers, and possibly to those with other mental disorders. We show that even seemingly positive stereotypes attached to mental disorders give rise to both testimonial injustice and wilful hermeneutical ignorance. We thus expose an insidious form of epistemic harm that has been overlooked in the literature.

scholarly journals Missional postures and practices for South African Baptist churches

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Henry
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Missio Dei ◽  
Baptist Churches ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Missional Practices ◽  
Participant Observer

This article enumerates the importance of a missional posture in our Baptist cultural moment and details various issues related to the author’s definition of the concept missio Dei. Moving to contextual practices among South African Baptists, the author deals with missional practices deployed in the Baptist context from a participant observer basis. Important principles for the effective implementation of those missional practices across the evangelical denominational divide can be drawn.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article seeks to challenge the modern conception of church as attractional and presents an alternative model that aligns with the recent missional conversations by highlighting five missional practices for congregations to implement for the common good. The fields of theology, missiology and ecclesiology are impacted by this study as it uses the author’s contextual findings as participant observer.

scholarly journals Global Epistemic Injustice: An Ethical Confrontation With Jihadism

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Hager Ben Driss
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Testimonial Injustice

The aim of this article is to press the borders of philosophy to the terrain of literary studies and praxis of teaching. Starting from Kamila Shamsie's novel Home Fire, I try to enlarge the frame of Miranda Fricker's discussion of epistemic injustice. Indeed, Fricker's concern with everyday epistemic micro-aggressions can serve as a model of investigating global epistemic injustices. Shamsie's narrative about terrorism offers clear instances of testimonial injustice that fuse in other forms of injustices and form a continuum of epistemic injustice. Bringing the issue of terrorism and jihadism to the classroom and addressing it through philosophical epistemic lenses provides a precious occasion for an ethical confrontation with it. It is also a way to trespass the boundaries between the classroom and the outside world. The discussion with students raises the question of empathy, as constitutive of ethics, and looks into its limits.  

LEARNING TO LISTEN: EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE AND THE CHILD

Episteme ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Burroughs ◽  
Deborah Tollefsen
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Testimonial Injustice ◽  
Detrimental Impact ◽  
Miranda Fricker ◽  
Learning To Listen

AbstractInEpistemic InjusticeMiranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice in which someone is wronged specifically in his or her capacity as a knower. Fricker's examples of identity-prejudicial credibility deficit primarily involve gender, race, and class, in which individuals are given less credibility due to prejudicial stereotypes. We argue that children, as a class, are also subject to testimonial injustice and receive less epistemic credibility than they deserve. To illustrate the prevalence of testimonial injustice against children we document examples of negative prejudicial treatment in forensic contexts where children frequently act as testifiers. These examples, along with research on the child's competence and reliability as a testifier, reveal widespread epistemic prejudice against children. Given that subjection to prejudice can have a detrimental impact on children we discuss ways to ameliorate this form of testimonial injustice. We argue that, both in formal and natural contexts, the child's testimony should be evaluated alongside the relationships that support (or fail to support) her development as a testifier. The adult can play a central role in creating successful testimonial interactions with children by acting as a “responsible hearer.”

scholarly journals APAC: institution for the resocialization of prisoners

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Luana Aparecida Barbosa Braga ◽  
Fernanda Carla Wasner Vasconcelos ◽  
Cristiana Trindade Ituassu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law

The objective of this study was to analyze the method of resocialization practiced by APAC, Association for Protection and Assistance to the Prisoners stands out, an alternative to the treatment practiced in the prison system with lower cost than the common penitentiaries and superior results. In this case study, 17 semi-structured interviews were performed APAC-Itaúna (MG), in the year of 2016. The reports were submitted to the software IRAMUTEQ for the analysis of content according to Bardin and the results showed that APAC introjects its rules, standards and beliefs in the prisoners constituting an alternative model of detention management that is efficient, complying with the law of Penal Execution and not violating the human rights. The results of this study showed that the institution studied offers opportunities for resocialization of the prisoner through application of the structural elements of APAC method, which is discussed in the light of the administration.

Epistemic Injustice as Systemic Communicative Dysfunction

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Pavel D. Tishchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Mental Space ◽  
Testimonial Injustice ◽  
The Voice

It is argued that epistemic injustice as a problem of expertise is related not only to its scientization, closure, and the inability of institutionalized experts to hear the voice of representatives of the marginal communities, as stated in the article by S.Y. Shevchenko, but also to systemic communicative dysfunction in the relations of scientists, experts, representatives of marginal communities and state authorities. It is supposed that dashing about of dysfunctionality of interactions is the mistrust of social actors to each other which generates mutual forms of both hermeneutical, and testimonial injustice in M. Fricker sense. Unilateral view of marginalized communities is criticized. It should be taken into account that due to the rapid specialization in scientific production of knowledge, the boundary between the expert and the profane is radically shifted from the space of external social relations to the internal mental space of each of the experts.

Thermal Laser-Induced Stenosis of the Common Bile Duct An Alternative Model for Experimental Research

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 758-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
D VORWERK ◽  
R W GUENTHER ◽  
W KUEPPER ◽  
G KISSINGER
Keyword(s):  
Bile Duct ◽  
Common Bile Duct ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Credibility Excess and the Social Imaginary in Cases of Sexual Assault

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey S Yap
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
The Social ◽  
Testimonial Injustice ◽  
Miranda Fricker

This paper will connect literature on epistemic injustice with literature on victims and perpetrators, to argue that in addition to considering the credibility deficit suffered by many victims, we should also consider the credibility excess accorded to many perpetrators. Epistemic injustice, as discussed by Miranda Fricker, considers ways in which someone might be wronged in their capacity as a knower. Testimonial injustice occurs when there is a credibility deficit as a result of identity-prejudicial stereotypes. However, criticisms of Fricker have pointed out that credibility is part of a more complex system that includes both deficits and excesses. I will use these points to argue that we should look closer at sources of credibility excess in cases of sexual assault. This means that in addition to considering sources of victim blaming by looking at ways in which “ideal” victims are constructed, we also need to consider ways in which “ideal” perpetrators are constructed.

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