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知正义之间的关系。如果社会正义不直接与挑战我们所认为的正义的基础的认识论问题相联系，我将质疑社会正义的结果是否有限。这将通过现代性的透镜进行探索，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。我将使用黑人女性主义思想和非殖民理论作为理论框架，通过它来发展和分析这部作品。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如何在他们的工作中发挥作用。我打算让我的工作在主题和制作方式上都具有非殖民性;我将使用互动访谈进行自我民族志，以挑战更传统的研究方法和正确知识的制作。从本质上讲，我将探讨一个系统的缺点，它教导我们，我们可以立法走向正义，但几乎没有提供空间来想象如果我们挑战知识的基础，而不仅仅是它的产品，世界会是什么样子。随着越来越多的人对系统感到失望，活动家需要替代的想法，这篇论文将提供新的和令人兴奋的想法。

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.