Narrative Fiction and Epistemic Injustice

Cunliffe, Zoë

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“…It would be comforting to think that the underlying attitudes and assumptions of the jurors, in this case, would have changed significantly by the time of Fricker's writing—but as numerous cases that boosted the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement have demonstrated, such assumptions still affect the judgements of professionals and members of the public, causing them, in some cases, to dismiss the claims of a man being choked to death that he cannot breathe. Despite this being an unreliable and conflicting stereotype, it is a dominant stereotype nonetheless that causes serious harm 58 . We owe it to ourselves and vulnerable children to reform for the better by listening, hearing, and creating a new language to finally put all sinister epistemic injustices to bed.…”

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Stigma, epistemic injustice, and “looked after children”: The need for a new language

Fieller

Loughlin

2022

Evaluation Clinical Practice

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This article examines the processes that contribute to the stigmatization of a group of people typically identified as “children in care” or “looked after children.” In particular, we will look at the ways that we (adults, professionals, and carers) interact with these children, based on their status as both children and members of a socially marginalized and disadvantaged group, and how these modes of interaction can inhibit dialogue—a dialogue that is needed if we are to base our conceptions regarding the needs of these children on a more accurate understanding of their experiences and perspective. The problem is particularly challenging because the very terminology we use in the care community to identify this group is a product of the damaging preconceptions that have affected our interactions with its members and, we argue, it serves to reinforce those preconceptions. Using Fricker's work on epistemic injustice, in conjunction with evidence regarding how accusations of abuse and neglect of these children have been addressed in numerous cases, we illustrate the problems we have in hearing the voices of members of this group and the harmful effects this has on their own ability to understand and articulate their experiences. These problems represent “barriers to disclosure” that need to be surmounted if we are to establish a more inclusive dialogue. Currently, dialogue between these children and those of us charged to “look after” them is too often characterized by a lack of trust: not only in terms of the children feeling that their word is not taken seriously, that their claims are not likely to be believed, but also in their feeling that they cannot trust those to whom they might disclose abuse or neglect. The goals of the paper are modest in that we aim simply to open up the debate on how to meet this epistemic challenge, noting that there are specific problems that extend beyond those already identified for hearing the voices of other victims of epistemic injustice. Explicitly recognizing the nature and extent of the problem still leaves us a long way from its solution, but it is a crucial start.

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“…Despite this being an unreliable and conflicting stereotype, it is a dominant stereotype nonetheless that causes serious harm. 58 We owe it to ourselves and vulnerable children to reform for the better by listening, hearing, and creating a new language to finally put all sinister epistemic injustices to bed.…”

Section: Changing Our Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

Stigma, epistemic injustice, and “looked after children”: The need for a new language

Fieller

Loughlin

2022

Evaluation Clinical Practice

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“…Indeed, fiction is often praised for its ability to evoke empathy for and understanding of those unlike ourselves. It explores human experiences such as love and loss, and present and past systemic wrongs, and can inspire people to reach across what are taken to be intractable differences, and influence the social imagination for the better (Cunliffe 2019).…”

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Telling the Stories of Others

Mehdi

2023

Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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Documenting hurt: UN, epistemic injustice, and the political ecology of the 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti

Mika

2020

Modern & Contemporary France

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In a reiteration of a long history of pathologization of Haiti and Haitians, the cholera epidemic was framed as endemic, an inevitable outcome of the 2010 earthquake, and a quasi-confirmation of Haiti's premodern, exceptional predicament. Baseball in the Time of Cholera and Haiti in a Time of Cholera, widely viewed but not extensively analysed documentaries, challenge this linking of disaster and disease. They reveal forms of epistemic injustice and counter the politics behind such misappropriations of cause and effect in the UN-introduced cholera outbreak. Centring on the notion of hurt, this essay explores the ways in which the two films give value to personal testimony, stories of individual life and loss, offer a relational take on life with cholera, and, in so doing, contribute to the 'narrative defeat' of the UN (Payton 2017). In effect, the two films, as the article argues, formulate a political ecology of the epidemic: they compel a rethinking of the relationship between forms of experiential knowledge, such as personal testimony, and forms of slow violence that occur when an environment is rendered dangerous, or when an introduced disease becomes an endemic threat. RÉSUMÉ Encore un exemple de la pathologisation d'Haïti et des Haïtiens, l'épidémie de choléra de 2010 a été représentée comme endémique, inévitable après le tremblement de terre 2010, tout en étant une confirmation du malheur exceptionnel de ce pays «prémoderne ». Baseball in the Time of Cholera et Haiti in a Time of Cholera, deux films largement circulés mais pas considérés d'une façon analytique, remettent en cause le lien entre désastre et épidémie. Ils montrent des formes d'injustice épistémique et opposent les motifs politiqués derrière cette attribution erronée des causes et des effets de cette épidémie introduite par l'ONU. Cet article, centré sur la notion de douleur, explore comment ces deux films donnent valeur aux témoignages personnels, les témoignages de la vie et de la perte, donnent une perspective relationnelle sur la vie avec le choléra tout en contribuant à 'la défaite narrative' de l'ONU (Payton 2017). En effet, les deux oeuvres cinématographiques, comme l'article le suggère, offrent une écologie politique du choléra: ils nous font repenser le rapport entre connaissances expérientielles, comme le témoignage, et la 'slow violence' qui devient visible quand un environnement est rendu dangereux ou quand une maladie importée devient endémique.

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Narrative Fiction and Epistemic Injustice

Cited by 8 publications

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Stigma, epistemic injustice, and “looked after children”: The need for a new language

Stigma, epistemic injustice, and “looked after children”: The need for a new language

Telling the Stories of Others

Documenting hurt: UN, epistemic injustice, and the political ecology of the 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti

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