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Who Gets To Know? Combating Colonial Epistemic Oppression, Timothy J. Cotter
Who Gets To Know? Combating Colonial Epistemic Oppression, Timothy J. Cotter
Senior Independent Study Theses
This Independent Study thesis is divided into five chapters. In the introduction, I explain the focus of the paper. In the second chapter, “Landscapes of Epistemic Injustice,” I clarify the concept of epistemic injustice by breaking it down into hermeneutical injustice and testimonial injustice. I argue that we have obligations to each other as knowers and producers of knowledge, and the content of these obligations within a given situation depends upon the social position of both the speaker and the audience or audiences. In the third chapter, “Epistemic Oppression and Colonialism,” I contend that Western colonial projects frequently enact third-order …