Responsibilities of Identity: Epistemic Trustworthiness as Resistance to Settler Colonial Domination
I argue that unsatisfying relations of political recognition between the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples of Turtle Island, and the Canadian state are a product of, and thereby a means of reinforcing and reproducing, hermeneutical domination, a distinct form of epistemic injustice. Remedies f...
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ftconcordiauniv:oai:https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca:988416 2023-05-15T16:15:58+02:00 Responsibilities of Identity: Epistemic Trustworthiness as Resistance to Settler Colonial Domination Dillon, Robbie 2021-04-16 text https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/988416/ https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/988416/1/Dillon_MA_S2021.pdf en eng https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/988416/1/Dillon_MA_S2021.pdf Dillon, Robbie (2021) Responsibilities of Identity: Epistemic Trustworthiness as Resistance to Settler Colonial Domination. [Graduate Projects (Non-thesis)] (Unpublished) term_access Graduate Projects (Non-thesis) NonPeerReviewed 2021 ftconcordiauniv 2022-05-28T19:04:36Z I argue that unsatisfying relations of political recognition between the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples of Turtle Island, and the Canadian state are a product of, and thereby a means of reinforcing and reproducing, hermeneutical domination, a distinct form of epistemic injustice. Remedies for hermeneutical domination require the granting of epistemic trust, which I claim is untenable absent subordinated parties’ autonomous assumption of responsibilities that establish their epistemic trustworthiness. Given the logics of elimination that are a defining feature of settler colonial projects, I claim that my approach provides a more effective defense of Indigenous alterities than proposals based on Fanon-inspired notions of ‘turning away.’ Text First Nations inuit Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository (Montreal) Turtle Island ENVELOPE(-65.845,-65.845,-66.061,-66.061) |
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I argue that unsatisfying relations of political recognition between the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples of Turtle Island, and the Canadian state are a product of, and thereby a means of reinforcing and reproducing, hermeneutical domination, a distinct form of epistemic injustice. Remedies for hermeneutical domination require the granting of epistemic trust, which I claim is untenable absent subordinated parties’ autonomous assumption of responsibilities that establish their epistemic trustworthiness. Given the logics of elimination that are a defining feature of settler colonial projects, I claim that my approach provides a more effective defense of Indigenous alterities than proposals based on Fanon-inspired notions of ‘turning away.’ |
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https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/988416/1/Dillon_MA_S2021.pdf Dillon, Robbie (2021) Responsibilities of Identity: Epistemic Trustworthiness as Resistance to Settler Colonial Domination. [Graduate Projects (Non-thesis)] (Unpublished) |
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