Democracy, Trust, and Epistemic Justice

Catala, Amandine

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“…Recent scholarship has begun to draw attention to this omission, highlighting the need to better understand the status of distrust and to study its relationship to trust conceptually and empirically (Hardin, 2004;Van De Walle and Six, 2014;Catala, 2015;Krishnamurthy, 2015;Intawan and Nicholson, 2018). It is unclear however, whether all scholars have the same concept in mind when formulating their arguments.…”

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Rethinking political distrust

Bertsou

2019

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Increasing political distrust has become a commonplace observational remark across many established democracies, and it is often used to explain current political phenomena. In contrast to most scholarship that focuses solely on the concept of trust and leaves distrust untheorized, this article makes a contribution by analysing political distrust. It argues that citizen distrust of government and political institutions poses a threat for democratic politics and clarifies the relationship between the distrust observed in established democracies and classical ‘liberal distrust’, which is considered beneficial for democracy. Further, it addresses the relationship between trust and distrust, identifying a series of functional asymmetries between the two concepts, with important implications for theoretical and empirical work in political science. The article suggests that a conceptualization of political distrust based on evaluations of incompetence, unethical conduct and incongruent interests can provide a fruitful ground for future research that aims to understand the causes, consequences, and potential remedies for political distrust.

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Rethinking political distrust

Bertsou

2019

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…Again, strict equality of epistemic power is not necessarily desirable, as we can also recognize the distinct expertise that social groups have in certain areas. Catala (2015) makes a similar point when she argues that dominant majorities ought to epistemically trust a minority group on a relevant issue by virtue of their expertise. That is, on some issues, minority groups are epistemically privileged such that special, rather than equal, status is due (2015,(431)(432)(433)(434).…”

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Celebrity, Democracy, and Epistemic Power

Archer¹,

Cawston²,

Matheson

et al. 2019

Perspect. polit.

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What, if anything, is problematic about the involvement of celebrities in democratic politics? While a number of theorists have criticized celebrity involvement in politics, none so far have examined this issue using the tools of social epistemology, the study of the effects of social interactions, practices, and institutions on knowledge and belief acquisition. We will draw on these resources to investigate the issue of celebrity involvement in politics, specifically as this involvement relates to democratic theory and its implications for democratic practice. We will argue that an important and underexplored form of power, which we will call epistemic power, can explain one important way in which celebrity involvement in politics is problematic. This is because unchecked uses and unwarranted allocations of epistemic power, which celebrities tend to enjoy, threaten the legitimacy of existing democracies and raise important questions regarding core commitments of deliberative, epistemic, and plebiscitary models of democratic theory. We will finish by suggesting directions that democratic theorists could pursue when attempting to address some of these problems.

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“…O primeiro se liga ao fato de que o acesso ao conhecimento do termo e seu significado é desigual em nossa sociedade; raça, classe, letramento são elementos que incidem diretamente no acesso a esse recurso e, portanto, na possibilidade de se reconhecer vítima de uma violação. O segundo problema se liga ao fato de que a aplicação, reconhecimento e legitimidade do termo "violência obstétrica" seguem em disputa, o que pode ser mais bem entendido à luz do conceito "dominação hermenêutica" de Amandine Catala (2015). A autora inclui a dominação hermenêutica como um terceiro tipo de injustiça epistêmica, resultante de uma interseção entre os dois tipos propostos por Fricker.…”

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A Injustiça Epistêmica na violência obstétrica

Gabriel

Santos

2020

Rev. Estud. Fem.

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Resumo: Temos como objetivo, no presente artigo, apontar aspectos epistêmicos presentes na violência obstétrica. Para isso, apresentaremos o conceito de injustiça epistêmica proposto por Miranda Fricker e como tem sido utilizado para reflexões sobre as práticas de saúde na literatura de epistemologia social. Posteriormente, nos deteremos em analisar relatos de casos de violência obstétrica bem como um caso de esterilização forçada, examinando o Relatório Final da CPMI acerca da incidência de esterilização em massa de mulheres no Brasil e artigos científicos que descrevem casos de violência obstétrica. Com isso, buscamos apontar que há um aspecto epistêmico em tais violações e que uma mudança na distribuição de credibilidade pode ser relevante para o enfrentamento à violência obstétrica.

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Democracy, Trust, and Epistemic Justice

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Rethinking political distrust

Celebrity, Democracy, and Epistemic Power

A Injustiça Epistêmica na violência obstétrica

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