The epistemology of resistance : gender and racial oppression, epistemic injustice, and resistant imaginations

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

This text 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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Medina, José, 1968-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:	Studies in feminist philosophy.
Subjects:	Resistance (Philosophy) Knowledge, Sociology of. Social epistemology. Epistemics. Oppression (Psychology) sociology of knowledge. PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology. Epistemics Knowledge, Sociology of Social epistemology Rassismus Sexismus Unterdrückung Soziale Erkenntnistheorie
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Table of Contents:

Active ignorance, epistemic others, and epistemic friction
Resistance as epistemic vice and as epistemic virtue
Imposed silences and shared hermeneutical responsibilities
Epistemic responsibility and culpable ignorance
Meta-lucidity, "epistemic heroes," and the everyday struggle toward epistemic justice
Resistant imaginations and radical solidarity.