willful hermeneutical ignorance

📖 Definitions

Despite the availability of alternative conceptualizations put forth by marginalized, resistant knowers, “dominantly situated knowers nonetheless continue to misunderstand and misinterpret the world” (Pohlhaus 2012, 716).

🔗 Relations

• type of: hermeneutical injustice
• produces: epistemic oppression

📚 References

• Pohlhaus Jr., Gaile. 2012. “Relational Knowing and Epistemic Injustice: Toward a Theory of Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance.” Hypatia 27 (4): 715–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01222.x.

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