Failures and possibilities of epistemic justice, with some implications for higher education
Failures and possibilities of epistemic justice, with some implications for higher education
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认知正义的失败和可能性,对高等教育的一些影响
DOI:
10.1080/17508487.2018.1474774
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
M. Walker
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作者:
M. Walker
ABSTRACT This papers draws on the compelling example of a political movement in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s to explore both how epistemic justice conditions of possibility and of failure play out in practice. It provides a springboard to understand how and why failures of epistemic justice matter tremendously for democratic and inclusive lives and how the historical example can point us in the direction of higher education as a space for Amartya Sen’s redressable injustices if underpinned by Miranda’s Fricker’s core capability of epistemic contribution being available pedagogically to all. The paper engages with ideas, practices and actions fostered by Black Consciousness against apartheid as both a hermeneutical and a testimonial injustice in South Africa, with both having a relational structure of giving and receiving, as Fricker argues and as Jose Medina elaborates by extending the structure to include the communicative and participatory. The paper then shows the importance of these conceptual frames to transformative higher education practices and how such practices might contribute to more epistemic justice in higher education.