The Right to Imagine Alternative Worlds: Mapping Epistemic and Social Justice in the 'Modern' World

我的研究将探讨社会正义和认识正义之间的关系。如果社会正义与挑战我们所认为的正义的基础的认识论问题没有直接关系，我将质疑社会正义在其结果中是否受到限制。这将通过现代性的镜头进行探索，并将涉及对塑造现代世界的西方哲学原则进行彻底的文本分析。我将使用黑人女权主义思想和非殖民化理论作为理论框架，通过它来发展和分析这项工作。我将采访英国黑人活动家，以确定他们认为自己的活动模式有多成功，以及对社会正义和知识正义的承诺在他们的工作中发挥了怎样的作用。我打算让我的作品在主题和制作方式上都是非殖民主义的；我将使用交互式访谈来进行自动人种志，以挑战更传统的研究方法和可靠知识的生产。从本质上讲，我将探讨一个制度的缺点，这个制度告诉我们，我们可以通过立法来实现正义，但几乎没有提供空间来想象，如果我们挑战知识的基础，而不仅仅是挑战知识的产物，世界会变成什么样子。随着越来越多的人对现行制度感到失望，激进分子需要其他的想法，而本文将提供新的、令人兴奋的想法。

My research will explore the relationship between social justice and epistemic justice. I will interrogate whether social justice is limited in its outcomes if it is not directly related to epistemological questions that challenge the very basis of what we conceive to be just. This will be explored through the lens of modernity and will involve a thorough textual analysis of Western philosophical principles that have come to shape the modern world. I will use Black Feminist Thought and Decolonial Theory as the theoretical frameworks through which to develop and analyse this work. I will interview Black British activists to ascertain how successful they feel their modes of activism have been and how commitments to social justice, and justice of knowledges have played out in their work. I intend for my work to be decolonial in both its subject matter and in how it is produced, as such; I will be carrying out an auto-ethnography using interactive interviews to challenge more conventional research methods and the production of sound knowledge. Essentially, I will explore the shortcomings of a system that teaches us that we can legislate towards justice though scarcely offers the room to imagine what the world could be like if we challenged the basis of knowledge, and not just the product of it. Activists are in need of alternative ideas as more and more become disillusioned with the system, this thesis will offer just that - new and exciting ideas.