Tracking epistemic violence, tracking practices of silencing. Dotson, K. Hypatia, 26(2):236–257, 2011. 1
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Too often, identifying practices of silencing is a seemingly impossible exercise. Here I claim that attempting to give a conceptual reading of the epistemic violence present when silencing occurs can help distinguish the different ways members of oppressed groups are silenced with respect to testimony. I offer an account of epistemic violence as the failure, owing to pernicious ignorance, of hearers to meet the vulnerabilities of speakers in linguistic exchanges. Ultimately, I illustrate that by focusing on the ways in which hearers fail to meet speaker dependency in a linguistic exchange, efforts can be made to demarcate the different types of silencing people face when attempting to testify from oppressed positions in society. © by Hypatia, Inc.
@article{dotson_tracking_2011,
	title = {Tracking epistemic violence, tracking practices of silencing},
	volume = {26},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01177.x},
	abstract = {Too often, identifying practices of silencing is a seemingly impossible exercise. Here I claim that attempting to give a conceptual reading of the epistemic violence present when silencing occurs can help distinguish the different ways members of oppressed groups are silenced with respect to testimony. I offer an account of epistemic violence as the failure, owing to pernicious ignorance, of hearers to meet the vulnerabilities of speakers in linguistic exchanges. Ultimately, I illustrate that by focusing on the ways in which hearers fail to meet speaker dependency in a linguistic exchange, efforts can be made to demarcate the different types of silencing people face when attempting to testify from oppressed positions in society. © by Hypatia, Inc.},
	number = {2},
	journal = {Hypatia},
	author = {Dotson, Kristie},
	year = {2011},
	note = {1},
	keywords = {3 Ignorance and censorship, 4 Social aspects of ignorance, Ignorance et censure, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
	pages = {236--257},
}

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