The Right to Be Known : Epistemic Reparations and the Making of Rounder Stories.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lackey, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Stories shape how we understand and live in the world-but many communities and individuals have been denied their stories through erasure, distortion, and vilification. This book asks: if people are unknown in deep, unjust ways because their stories were stolen, don't they have the right to be known? Building on the UN's "right to know," it argues for a counterpart: the right to be known. Framed as a matter of epistemic reparations, this right highlights our collective responsibility to redress historical and ongoing wrongs by restoring voice, visibility, and recognition to those pushed to the margins of the unknown.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known

1. The Right to Know and the Right to Be Known

2. Not Being Known

3. Epistemic Reparations

4. Epistemic Reparations: Absences and Deficiencies

5. Conclusion

2 Stories That Wrong and Stories That Repair

1. Storytelling and the Criminal Legal System

2. Epistemic Reparations and Counterstories

3. Misknowing

4. Flat Stories and Round Stories

5. The Right to Be Known Versus the Right to Be Forgotten

6. Unsympathetic Perpetrators

7. Biases, Perspectives, and Flat Stories

8. Conclusion

3 Talking, Listening, and Learning

1. Epistemic Disadvantages of Firsthand Knowledge

2. Perspective Taking Versus Perspective Sharing

3. Talking, Coconstructed Narratives, and Epistemic Generation

4. Epistemic Respect, Inclusion, and Proximate Sources

5. Deference, Learning, and Restorative Justice

6. Conclusion

4 Knowing Someone

1. Bearing Witness

2. Restoring Status

3. Epistemic Reparations for the Deceased

4. Causal Accounts of Knowing Someone

5 Duties to Know Someone

1. Perfect and Imperfect Epistemic Duties

2. Perfect and Imperfect Epistemic Duties to Know

3. Duties and the Epistemic

4. Epistemic Reparations Versus Epistemic Repair

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-783397-7

0-19-783398-5

0-19-783396-9

OCLC:

1570483447