The epistemology of resistance : gender and racial oppression, epistemic injustice, and resistant imaginations / José Medina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Medina, José, 1968-

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resistance (Philosophy).

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Social epistemology.

Epistemics.

Oppression (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xiii, 332 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Summary:

This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other. Medina's epistemology of resistance offers a contextualist theory of our complicity with epistemic injustices and a social connection model of shared responsibility for improving participation in social practices. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Active Ignorance, Epistemic Others, and Epistemic Friction 27

1.1 Active Ignorance and the Epistemic Vices of the Privileged 30

1.2 Lucidity and the Epistemic Virtues of the Oppressed 40

1.3 Resistance, Epistemic Responsibility, and the Regulative Principles of "Epistemic Friction" 48

2 Resistance as Epistemic Vice and as Epistemic Virtue 56

2.1 The Excess of Epistemic Authority and the Resulting Insensitivity 57

2.1.1 Epistemic Justice as Interactive, Comparative, and Contrastive 60

2.1.2 Differential Authority, Systematic Injustice, and the Social Imaginary 64

2.2 The Vice of Avoiding Epistemic Friction, Hermeneutical Injustice, and the Problem of "Meta-Blindness" 70

2.3 Striving for Open-Mindedness: Epistemic Friction and Epistemic Counterpoints as Correctives of Meta-Blindness 75

3 Imposed Silences and Shared Hermeneutical Responsibilities 90

3.1 Silences and the Communicative Approach to Epistemic Injustice 91

3.2 Communicative Pluralism and Hermeneutical Injustice 96

3.3 Our Hermeneutical Responsibilities with Respect to Multiple Publics 109

4 Epistemic Responsibility and Culpable Ignorance 119

4.1 Responsible Agency, Knowledge/Ignorance, and Social Injustice 121

4.2 Betraying One's Responsibilities under Conditions of Oppression: Social Contextuality, Interconnectedness, and Culpable Ignorance 133

4.2.1 Pig Heads, Burning Crosses, and Car Keys 135

4.2.2 The Social Division of Cognitive Laziness 145

4.2.3 Blindness to Differences 150

4.2.4 Blindness to Social Relationality and the Relevance Dilemma 154

4.3 Overlapping Insensitivities, Culture-Blaming, and Gender Violence against Third World Women 161

5 Meta-Lucidity, "Epistemic Heroes," and the Everyday Struggle Toward Epistemic Justice 186

5.1 Living Up to One's Epistemic Responsibilities under Conditions of Oppression: "Meta-Lucidity" 187

5.2 Promoting Lucidity and Social Change 206

5.3 Echoing: Chained Action, "Epistemic Heroes," and Social Networks 225

5.3.1 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Epistemic Courage, Resistant Imagination, and Epistemic Friction 230

5.3.2 Rosa Parks: Counter-Performativity, Chained Agency, and Social Networks 234

6 Resistant Imaginations and Radical Solidarity 250

6.1 Pluralistic Communities of Resistance 258

6.2 Normative Pluralism and Radical Solidarity 266

6.3 Epistemic Friction and Insurrectionary Genealogies 281

6.4 Guerrilla Pluralism, Counter-Memories, and Epistemologies of Ignorance 289

6.5 Resistant Imaginations: Toward a Kaleidoscopic Social Sensibility 297

6.6 Conclusion: Network Solidarity 308.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-325) and index.

ISBN:

9780199929023

0199929025

9780199929047

0199929041

OCLC:

794040194