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‘Sex Trafficking’ as Epistemic Violence [PDF]
While the American Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 (FOSTA) has been heavily criticised by researchers and activists for the harm it inflicts on sex workers, many of these critics nevertheless agree with the Act’s goal of fighting sex trafficking online.
Ben Chapman-Schmidt +2 more
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SUBALTERN RESPONSES TO EPISTEMIC VIOLENCE; THE LEGACY OF COLONIALISM [PDF]
Epistemic violence is the extent in which local knowledge has been ignored, rejected and in some cases completely wiped out.2 It stems from a constant repression that imposes mental violence rather than physical violence.
Mkhwanazi, Siwelile S.
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An analysis of the epistemic link between the Catholic religion and violence in Uganda's history [PDF]
Uganda's recent history of violence has had an interesting characteristic: it has arguably been mainly within the Christian and more specifically Catholic religious space.
Kizito Kiyimba
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Obstetric violence as epistemic injustice: childbirth trouble
This article theoretically frames the issue of obstetric violence as epistemic injustice, drawing heavily from feminist phenomenological philosophy, within the general framework of narrative bioethics and the fight for sexual-reproductive rights.
Ester Massó Guijarro
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Disentangling from Epistemic Violence: Contemporary Photographers Unfixing the Image of Africa
This essay looks at ways of disentangling from epistemic violence in visual production in African urban contexts. Tracing parallels between the colonial intrinsically violent gaze and contemporary attempts to disentangle from epistemic violence, the ...
A. A.
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Epistemic violence and epistemic injustice occur when a person or collective suffers unjust harm as epistemic subjects. This article explores the role of these issues in the conflict known as “laws of dispossession”, which consists of the systematic issu-
Juan David Franco Daza
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Of Theological Burglaries and Epistemic Violence
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to explore how the historical roots of Black and other liberation theologies are undermined through the usurping of the vocabulary of decolonial language. Through a critical discourse analysis of a selected publication, we demonstrate how the foregrounding of perspectives, the trivializing of positionality and ...
Sarojini Nadar, Tinyiko Maluleke
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Decolonisation of higher education: Dismantling epistemic violence and Eurocentrism in South Africa
Since the end of the oppressive and racist apartheid system in 1994, epistemologies and knowledge systems at most South African universities have not considerably changed; they remain rooted in colonial, apartheid and Western worldviews and ...
Savo Heleta
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Violence in Place: Reading Violence through Kincentric Ecology
This article explores violence in place, with the intent to more broadly configure the notion of violence within sociological and anthropological discourse.
Amanda Kearney
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Roma Health Mediators: A Neocolonial Tool for the Reinforcement of Epistemic Violence?
Scientific articles in medical journals regarding Roma have produced a type of problematic consensus narrative that is reinforced through its formulaic repetition.
Ioanna Petraki
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