The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance

Author:   José Medina (Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy, Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University)
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Pages:   456
Publication Date:   12 May 2023
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Author:   José Medina (Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy, Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 22.60cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780197660911


ISBN 10:   0197660916
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   12 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Protest as a Matrix of Communicative Resistance Chapter 1. Toward a Radical Epistemology of Protest 1.1. Protest as Democratic Communicative Resistance 1.2. Our Duties to Protest and to Listen to Protest: Expressive Harms and Communicative Resistance 1.3. Managing the Duty to Protest and to Give Proper Uptake to Protest 1.4. Uncivil Protest, Civil Death, and Liberation Movements Chapter 2. No Justice, No Peace: Uncivil Protest and the Politics of Confrontation 2.1. Social Spaces without Political Resistance? Stifling Dissent and the Difficulties of Protests in Sports 2.2. Arguments for Protesting Injustice:

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This is an immensely important book for our times. Medina provides new critical analyses of how dissent can be silenced and subtly disarmed in ways that escape the charge of censorship. He explores how protests challenge standard ideas about both knowledge and communication. And he also demonstrates, more hopefully, how social movements transform public spheres in a productive manner that outlives the current moment. * Linda Mart'in Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York * Medina offers a theoretically nuanced and empirically rich account of protest as 'communicative resistance' that can produce new varieties of collective learning and public inquiry. He argues that we have both a duty to protest injustice and a duty to listen actively to others' protests against injustice-even when their protests seem to be 'uncivil.' He shows that the duty to take resistance to injustice seriously is among the most important democratic responsibilities that we have. * Michele Moody-Adams, author of Making Space for Justice * The Epistemology of Protest fortifies Jos'e Medina's position as one of our most influential thinkers in the field of epistemic justice. Medina brilliantly applies his groundbreaking work on epistemic injustice and epistemic resistance to street activism and protest movements. At a time when democratic ideals are threatened by reactionary white supremacist movements, this book promises to provide a much-needed path to effective liberatory activism. * Nancy Tuana, author of Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference *


This is an immensely important book for our times. Medina provides new critical analyses of how dissent can be silenced and subtly disarmed in ways that escape the charge of censorship. He explores how protests challenge standard ideas about both knowledge and communication. And he also demonstrates, more hopefully, how social movements transform public spheres in a productive manner that outlives the current moment. * Linda Mart´in Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York * Medina offers a theoretically nuanced and empirically rich account of protest as 'communicative resistance' that can produce new varieties of collective learning and public inquiry. He argues that we have both a duty to protest injustice and a duty to listen actively to others' protests against injustice-even when their protests seem to be 'uncivil.' He shows that the duty to take resistance to injustice seriously is among the most important democratic responsibilities that we have. * Michele Moody-Adams, author of Making Space for Justice * The Epistemology of Protest fortifies Jos´e Medina's position as one of our most influential thinkers in the field of epistemic justice. Medina brilliantly applies his groundbreaking work on epistemic injustice and epistemic resistance to street activism and protest movements. At a time when democratic ideals are threatened by reactionary white supremacist movements, this book promises to provide a much-needed path to effective liberatory activism. * Nancy Tuana, author of Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference *


This is an immensely important book for our times. Medina provides new critical analyses of how dissent can be silenced and subtly disarmed in ways that escape the charge of censorship. He explores how protests challenge standard ideas about both knowledge and communication. And he also demonstrates, more hopefully, how social movements transform public spheres in a productive manner that outlives the current moment. * Linda Martin Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York * Medina offers a theoretically nuanced and empirically rich account of protest as 'communicative resistance' that can produce new varieties of collective learning and public inquiry. He argues that we have both a duty to protest injustice and a duty to listen actively to others' protests against injustice-even when their protests seem to be 'uncivil.' He shows that the duty to take resistance to injustice seriously is among the most important democratic responsibilities that we have. * Michele Moody-Adams, author of Making Space for Justice * The Epistemology of Protest fortifies Jose Medina's position as one of our most influential thinkers in the field of epistemic justice. Medina brilliantly applies his groundbreaking work on epistemic injustice and epistemic resistance to street activism and protest movements. At a time when democratic ideals are threatened by reactionary white supremacist movements, this book promises to provide a much-needed path to effective liberatory activism. * Nancy Tuana, author of Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference *


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José Medina is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He previously taught at Vanderbilt University and has held visiting appointments at Carlos III University, Princeton University, and University of Johannesburg. His first three books were on Wittgenstein and theories of meaning, identity, and agency. His fourth book, The Epistemology of Resistance is winner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award.

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