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

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Acknowledgements Foreword: Insensitivity and Blindness Introduction. Resistance, Democratic Sensibilities, and the Cultivation of Perplexity A. The Importance of Dissent and the Imperative of Interaction B. Resistance, Perplexity, and Multiperspectivalism C. Overview Chapter 1. Active Ignorance, Others, and Friction 1.1. Active Ignorance and the Vices of the Privileged 1.2. Lucidity and the Virtues of the Oppressed 1.3. Resistance, Responsibility, and the Regulative Principles of Friction Chapter 2. Resistance as Vice and as Virtue 2.1. The Excess of Authority and the Resulting Insensitivity 2.1.1. Justice as Interactive, Comparative and Contrastive 2.1.2. Differential Authority, Systematic Injustice, and the…

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Keywords
  • Oppression
  • Injustice
  • Resistance (ecology)
  • Sociology
  • Epistemology
  • Racism
  • Philosophy
  • Psychoanalysis
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Gender equality
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