extracted speech

📖 Definitions

"epistemic and social coercion may be used to produce testimony that is subordinating" (Pohlhaus, 2017, p. 22)

💡 Examples

• Central Park Five: five male juveniles of color were compelled to give false confessions and were consequently wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting and attacking a white woman jogging in New York City’s Central Park

🔗 Relations

• produces: epistemic exploitation

📚 References

• McKinney, R. (2016) “Extracted speech,” Social Theory and Practice, 42(2): 258–284.

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