Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 93.75pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p>This paper extends feminist critiques of epistemic authority by examining their particular relevance in contexts of instit...
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| description | <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 93.75pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p>This paper extends feminist critiques of epistemic authority by examining their particular relevance in contexts of institutionalized violence. By reading feminist criticism of "experts" together with theories of institutionalized violence, I argue that typical expert modes of thinking are incapable of rigorous knowledge of institutionalized violence because such knowledge requires a distinctive kind of thinking-within-discomfort for which conventionally trained experts are ill-suited. I turn to a newly active group of epistemic agents-anti-war relatives of soldiers-to examine the role that undervalued epistemic traits can play in knowledge of war and other forms of structural violence.</p> </span></span></p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68e67f3bb69a4418aff32eb0e2933a912022-12-22T02:16:24ZengBrock UniversityStudies in Social Justice1911-47882010-03-01412545990Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of ViolenceShari Stone-Mediatore0Ohio Wesleyan University<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 93.75pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p>This paper extends feminist critiques of epistemic authority by examining their particular relevance in contexts of institutionalized violence. By reading feminist criticism of "experts" together with theories of institutionalized violence, I argue that typical expert modes of thinking are incapable of rigorous knowledge of institutionalized violence because such knowledge requires a distinctive kind of thinking-within-discomfort for which conventionally trained experts are ill-suited. I turn to a newly active group of epistemic agents-anti-war relatives of soldiers-to examine the role that undervalued epistemic traits can play in knowledge of war and other forms of structural violence.</p> </span></span></p>http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1007epistemic authorityfeminist epistemologyinstitutionalized violenceengaged knowledges |
| spellingShingle | Shari Stone-Mediatore Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence Studies in Social Justice epistemic authority feminist epistemology institutionalized violence engaged knowledges |
| title | Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence |
| title_full | Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence |
| title_fullStr | Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence |
| title_short | Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence |
| title_sort | epistemologies of discomfort what military family anti war activists can teach us about knoweldge of violence |
| topic | epistemic authority feminist epistemology institutionalized violence engaged knowledges |
| url | http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1007 |
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