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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"epistemic injustice"”.
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Epistemic Overload as Epistemic Injustice
Epistemic injustices are the distinctly epistemic harms and wrongs which undermine or depreciate our capacities knowers. This dissertation develops a theory of epistemic injustice and justice which accounts for excesses in epistemic goods as a source of epistemic injustice. This is a theory of …
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Epistemic Injustice Toward Women in Engineering
… theory of knowledge and knowing-and other epistemic theories are gaining popularity in the EER community, and researchers are looking to the epistemic dimensions of engineering education to understand the cultural foundations of engineering that may not align with policies concerning …
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Diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and becoming better: An investigation into epistemic injustice and mental health
Epistemic injustice concerns a harm done to someone in their capacity as a knower, on the basis of attributing to them a credibility deficit. This can occur at the level of spoken communication, which is testimonial injustice: or in regards to the availability or otherwise of the conceptual tools …
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Exploration of the lived experiences of young british muslims in wales through a postcolonial and epistemic injustice lens
… and encouraged a desire to challenge social injustice. I examine the role of the UK government's Prevent Strategy and Fundamental British Values in 'othering' Muslims in Britain. I identify a weakened multiculturalism, the print media and the securitisation of Britain's Muslims as factors …
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A conceptual analysis of student voice exclusion in Higher Education testimony through the decolonization of Fricker’s epistemic injustice
… decolonize Miranda Fricker's (2007) account of epistemic injustice, this thesis examines the role of knowledge in epistemic practices and how it functions in higher education testimony to dominate, silence, and obscure student voices. <br/><br/><br/>
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How Others Inform and Transform One's Sense of Self
… as a virtue, I look at the role of epistemic injustice when it comes to receiving and evaluating feedback. Epistemic injustice involves harming a person by diminishing their ability to share or gain knowledge. Acknowledging the existence of epistemic injustice is to recognize the …
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Silence at school: rights, respect, and (in)justice
… Miranda Fricker’s conceptual framework of epistemic injustice is applied to the study, which attends to the social identities of young people at school, and the role these identities play in who is viewed as a ‘knower’ or a non-knower. Children’s participation rights, which include the …
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Being believed: Life history and the healing journey of Indian Residential School survivors
… of “being believed” as an experience linked to epistemic injustice (an injustice related to knowledge and power differences). A considerable part of the Survivors’ healing processes centred on their experience with an out-of-court reparations process known as the Independent Assessment Process …
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Knowing and doing, well and good
… chapter presents a new way of understanding epistemic injustice and describes how epistemic injustice (thus understood) interacts with action's constitutive aim of practical knowledge to cause shackling-a distinctive dilemma faced by marginalized agents that both manifests and constitutes …
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The Presumption of Non-Credibility
… non-credibility on complainants. This reflects epistemic injustice and is especially problematic for survivors, because the issue becomes compounded by rape myths and testimonial injustice. The thesis engages in broader arguments around the call for justice beyond judicial convictions and …
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Exploring acceptability and feasibility of a wearable device to facilitate home phototherapy treatment for newborn jaundice in rural Scotland: an interpretive description study.
… analyse the data. Miranda Fricker's concept of epistemic injustice, which proposes inequity due to unequal power dynamics between people or systems, provided a theoretical perspective to interpret key findings. The study found that, although parents expressed a desire for wearable phototherapy …
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Testimonial Injustice and the Puzzle of Hearer Culpability
… in Miranda Fricker's account of testimonial injustice, the puzzle of hearer culpability: how is it possible for hearers to be culpable for beliefs they form on the basis of stereotypes and prejudices that regularly bypass conscious thought? In trying to solve this puzzle, I consider one way …
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The Voice of the Voiceless: Addressing Various Forms of Injustice in the Civil Commitment Process for Those with Eating Disorders
… crosses the line from shaming into the realm of injustice – most notably, when the legal system is involved and civilly commits those with eating disorders and forces them into treatment. Using civil commitment as a means of “dealing with” people with eating disorders is deeply flawed because it …
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A narrative inquiry into early pregnancy loss, subsequent pregnancy and maternal attachment
… care and lack of follow-up support. The epistemic injustice the women endured emerged powerfully throughout their narratives. Without continuous professional support and follow-up care, joy in a subsequent pregnancy may be compromised and attachment to the subsequent child may be …
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Affective Roots: Memory, emotions and viscerality within organic agri-food networks in Tamil Nadu, India
… thesis highlights: (1) the enduring nature of epistemic injustice within agri-food relations, (2) how social boundaries are built, maintained and remade through affective encounters, circumscribing what I call the ‘affective roots’ of socio-ecological change and (3) how ambiguous affective …
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Examining Changes in African American Students' Epistemic Agency as STEM Learners
… be responsive to sociohistorical factors of epistemic injustice that dissociated African Americans identities from being producers of knowledge. This study argues that the construction of a learning progression to advance the epistemic participation of African American students is aligned …
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The making of impact: Causal validity and epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation
… and negotiation of causal validity and epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation (IDIE), with a specific focus on agricultural interventions. Drawing on Ernest House's (1980) assertion that evaluations should be not only true but also just, and Donald Campbell's …
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Hljóðrugl, hljóðsýki og framburðarfaraldur: Voru fordómar gegn flámæli dæmi um þekkingarlegt ranglæti?
… Miröndu Fricker um þekkingarlegt ranglæti (e. epistemic injustice) eru síðan notaðar til þess að skoða hvernig möguleg áhrif sem það hafði á flámælta einstaklinga að verða fyrir fordómum, staðalímyndum og að þeir væru ekki teknir alvarlega sem þekkjendur (e. knowers). Til þess að greina til …
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Indigenous worldviews meet Western paradigms: a path to renewal of human/non-human relationships
… nature. Issues of discrimination and epistemic injustice are contextualised with existing minority and intersectional thought, and distinguished from particular incommensurabilities between the two worldviews requiring their own approach. Part 1 introduces and practises an iterative …
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The experiences of mental health nurses who have been assaulted by patients in medium secure mental health settings
… reference to the Fricker’s (2007) concept of epistemic injustice, influenced by mental health nursing’s history, associative stigma, and the narrative of nurses as ‘angels and heroes’. Recommendations for education, practice and further research are made, focussing on challenging the cultural, …
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