testimonial death

📖 Definitions

"testimonial death, occurring when subjects are not given even minimal amounts of credibility and are prevented from participating in testimonial dynamics" (Medina 2018, 255).

💡 Examples

• "...Anzaldú a forcefully described Anglo White privilege as killing her voice and her capacity to be heard and understood in her own terms, as using “linguistic terrorism” to annihilate her self..." (Medina 2018, 254).

🔗 Relations

• part of: epistemic death

📚 References

• Medina, José. 2017. “Epistemic Injustice and Epistemologies of Ignorance.” In The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race, edited by Paul C. Taylor, Linda Martín Alcoff, and Luvell Anderson. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315884424-18.

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