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Epistemology of Resistance Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations

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ISBN-10: 0199929041

ISBN-13: 9780199929047

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jos� Medina, Jos� Medina

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This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in fruitful ways-from listening to each other, learning from each other, and mutually enriching each other's perspectives. 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 epistemic conditions of participation in social practices. Through the articulation of a new interactionism and polyphonic contextualism, the book…    
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Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Foreword: Insensitivity and Blindness
Introduction: Resistance, Democratic Sensibilities, and the Cultivation of Perplexity
The Improtance of Dissent and the Imperative of Epistemic Interaction
Resistance, Perplexity, and Multiperspectivalism
Overview
Active Ignorance, Epistemic Others, and Epistemic Friction
Active Ignorance and the Epistemic Vices of the Privileged
Lucidity and the Epistemic Virtues of the Oppressed
Resistance, Epistemic Responsibility, and the Regulative Principles of "Epistemic Friction"
Resistance as Epistemic Vice and as Epistemic Virtue
The Excess of Epistemic Authority and the Resulting Insensitivity
Epistemic Justice as Interactive, Comparative, and Contrastive
Differential Authority, Systematic Injustice, and the Social Imaginary
The Vice of Avoiding Epistemic Friction, Hermeneutical Injustice, and the Problem of "Meta-Blindness"
Striving for Open-Mindedness: Epistemic Friction and Epistemic Counterpoints as Correctives of Meta-Blindness
Imposed Silences and Shared Hermeneutical Responsibilities
Silences and the Communicative Approach to Epistemic Injustice
Communicative Pluralism and Hermeneutical Injustice
Our Hermeneutical Responsibilities with Respect to Multiple Publics
Epistemic Responsibility and Culpable Ignorance
Responsible Agency, Knowledge/Ignorance, and Social Injustice
Betraying One's Responsibilities under Conditions of Oppression: Social Contextuality, Interconnectedness, and Culpable Ignorance
Pig Heads, Burning Crosses, and Car Keys
The Social Division of Cognitive Laziness
Blindness to Differences
Blindness to Social Relationality and the Relevance Dilemma
Overlapping Insensitivities, Culture-Blaming, and Gender Violence against Third World Women
Meta-Lucidity, "Epistemic Heroes," and the Everyday Struggle Toward Epistemic Justice
Living Up to One's Epistemic Responsibilities under Conditions of Oppression: "Meta-Lucidity"
Promoting Lucidity and Social Change
Echoing: Chained Action, "Epistemic Heroes," and Social Networks
Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz: Epistemic Courage, Resistant Imagination, and Epistemic Friction
Rosa Parks: Counter-Performativity, Chained Agency, and Social Networks
Resistant Imaginations and Radical Solidarity
Pluralistic Communities of Resistance
Normative Pluralism and Radical Solidarity
Epistemic Friction and Insurrectionary Genealogies
Guerrilla Pluralism, Counter-Memories, and Epistemologies of Ignorance
Resistant Imaginations: Toward a Kaleidoscopic Social Sensibility
Conclusion: Network Solidarity
Coda
References
Index