epistemic exploitation

📖 Definitions

"Epistemic exploitation occurs when privileged persons compel marginalized persons to produce an education or explanation about the nature of the oppression they face" (Bernstein 2016, 578).

💡 Examples

• "‘exercising harmless curiosity,’ ‘just asking a question,’ ‘making a well-intentioned effort to learn,’ ‘offering alternative explanations,’ and ‘playing devil’s advocate’" (Berenstain 2016, 571).

🔗 Relations

• type of: epistemic injustice
• type of: epistemic opression
• produced by: epistemic power (foucauldian, see allen 2017
• hall: 2017)

📚 References

• Berenstain, Nora. 2016. "Epistemic Exploitation." Ergo 3 (22). https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0003.022
• Pohlhaus, Gaile Jr. 2020. “Epistemic Agency Under Oppression.” Philosophical Papers 49 (2): 233–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2020.1780149
• Fehr, Carla, and Janet Minji Jones. 2022. "Culture, Exploitation, and Epistemic Approaches to Diversity." Synthese 200 (6): 465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03787-8.

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