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Against revolutions

BJHS Themes
The history of science in public discussion is dominated by large-scale narratives of revolution. These locate epistemic violence within specialist communities, obscuring the role of science in environmental destruction and in silencing other ways of ...
James A. Secord, James Poskett
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La Violencia en Las Sombras: Epistemic Violence in The United States Immigration System and Its Implications

, 2023
The United States immigration system perpetuates epistemic violence against immigrants. Epistemic violence is a form of symbolic violence that deals with the processes of denying, silencing, and reducing knowledge.
Baker, Hannah Rosemary
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Monuments to Injustice and the Ethics of Dark Tourism: A Research Note

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research note aims to motivate philosophical examination of the ethical tensions surrounding ‘dark tourism’ and monuments to injustice. While such monuments function to acknowledge past wrongs, educate the public, and serve reparative functions, their presentation as tourist destinations can undermine these purposes.
Kok‐Chor Tan
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'False positives in Colombia: State violence, ignorance and the epistemic struggles of victims'

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This article analyses the epistemic dimensions of the false positives phenomenon in Colombia, where thousands of civilians were forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed by members of the Armed Forces and later falsely presented as combat ...
Julián Gaviria-Mira, Mónica López-Cárdenas, Juan David Franco-Daza, Carlos Garzón-Rodríguez   +3 more
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Performative Blame Avoidance

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sometimes we avoid or minimize criticism for our failings by performing a merely symbolic act aimed at addressing a real or perceived blame allegation. Consider individuals or institutions performing land acknowledgements as a means of box‐ticking inclusion without committing to any significant change. Or consider corporations forming advisory
Nicolas Nicola
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On Prizes

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article discusses prize‐creation and prize‐allocation. Such activities may seem morally neutral, or perhaps even beneficial. A central thesis of this article is that such practices have significant moral implications and should be brought under the remit of moral reasoning.
Federico Luzzi
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Epistemic Violence

, 2023
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Idiosyncrasy as Strategy in the Age of Epistemic Violence

Artnodes, 2017
One of the first principles of capitalism is, undeniably, instrumentalisation; the subjection of one thing to another with the speculative aim of producing some future ‘value’, regardless of how dubious – or even noxious this ‘value’ may be. In the knowledge economy, which produces value from accelerated innovation (also interpretable as the ...
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Prison violence and the mission statement [PDF]

, 1994
A report prepared by the Prison Violence Project, Kingston, Ontario, April 16, 1994. Rudolf Martens, Chairperson; J. Campbell, Research Director. Discusses the achievements and failures of the prison system after the adoption of a "mission statement" in ...
Prison Violence Project
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Who Has the Right to Fight? Rethinking Legitimate Authority in War

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a Razian account of legitimate authority in war. It rejects the traditionalist assumption that legitimate authority is confined to states and state‐like groups while defending the criterion as a distinct and morally significant element of the jus ad bellum against revisionism.
Brianna Rosen
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