José Medina
Biographic Data
| ID | 494773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Medina |
| GIVEN NAMES | José |
| FAMILY NAME | Medina |
| SIGNATURE | MEDINA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2625-2583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
El orden de prelación en la aplicación del derecho en los arbitrajes institucionales derivados de las contrataciones públicas en el Perú
El arbitraje en materia de contrataciones públicas se encuentra consagrado en la Ley N° 32069, Ley General de Contrataciones Públicas. En esta ley se establece un orden de preferencia en la aplicación del derecho. Sin embargo, la coexistencia de principios como la supremacía constitucional, la prevalencia de normas especiales (lex specialis) y la autonomía privada de la libertad (pacta sunt servanda) genera una falta de uniformidad en el criterio…
Aesthetic Resistance
Dictionnaire des philosophes français du XVIIe siècle
The Epistemology of Protest
This book offers a polyphonic theory of protest as a mechanism for political communication, group constitution, and epistemic empowerment. The book analyzes the communicative power of protest to break social silences and disrupt insensitivity and complicity with injustice. Medina also elucidates the power of protest movements to transform social sensibilities and change the political imagination. Medina’s theory of protest examines the obligation…
The Duties to Protest and to Listen to Protest
This article argues that the duties to protest and to listen to protest are central democratic obligations required for active citizenship. Section 1 sketches protest as communicative resistance. Section 2 argues that we always have a duty to listen to felicitous protests against injustice and that, under conditions of social uprising, we also have a duty to protest. Section 3 defends a view of protest participation that takes into account subjec…
Feminism and Epistemic Injustice
This chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in feminist philosophical work on injustice that is distinctly epistemic. The first part of the chapter focuses on the contributions that classic feminist theorists have made to the conceptualization of issues of epistemic injustice long before such name was available, focusing especially on the writings of feminists of color from the seventeenth century onward (Sojourner Truth, Maria St…
Epistemic Activism and the Politics of Credibility
Agential Epistemic Injustice and Collective Epistemic Resistance in the Criminal Justice System
This paper offers an analysis of how the American criminal justice system sets unfair constraints on the epistemic agency of detained subjects and promotes unfair negative consequences on the exercise of their epistemic agency. In Section 1, I distinguish three different kinds of agential epistemic injustices: those that occur when subjects are only believed when they are deprived of epistemic agency (as shown by Jennifer Lackey’s analysis of fal…
Theories of the Flesh
Complex Communication and Decolonial Struggles
This article elucidates and expands on María Lugones's account of complex communication across liminal sites as the basis for deep coalitions among oppressed groups. The analysis underscores the crucial role that emotions and resistant imaginations play in complex communication and world-traveling across liminal sites. In particular, it focuses on the role of emotional echoing and epistemic activism in complex forms of communication among oppress…
The other within
This essay puts in conversation some of Seyla Benhabib’s insights about exiled, stateless and migrant populations with ongoing discussions in critical race theory about the racial exclusions of indigenous populations and populations of colour not only in the foundations of Western modern states but also in their contemporary functioning today. The essay locates these exclusions not only in the failures of states but also in their proper functioni…
Racial Violence, Emotional Friction, and Epistemic Activism
Using Iris Marion Young's framework, this essay looks at racial violence as one of the many "faces" of racial oppression (which also include exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, and cultural domination). In the light of this analysis I argue that the fight against racial violence requires much more than identifying the perpetrators of such violence and bringing them to justice; it requires, I argue, thick critical engagements with multip…
Varieties of Hermeneutical Injustice 1
Hermeneutical injustice is the phenomenon that occurs when the intelligibility of communicators is unfairly constrained or undermined, when their meaning-making capacities encounter unfair obstacles, or when a gap in collective interpretive resources puts someone at an unfair advantage when it comes to making sense of their social experience. This chapter elucidates different versions and dimensions of the concept of hermeneutical injustice and h…
Epistemic Injustice and Epistemologies of Ignorance
This chapter examines the relationship between racial ignorance and different kinds of dysfunctions and epistemic injustices such as unequal access to and participation in knowledge practices, vitiated testimonial dynamics, and patterns of misinterpretation and distortion. It elucidates what counts as epistemic resistance, exploring how individuals and groups living under conditions of racial oppression can use their epistemic resources and abili…
The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice
Ignorance and Racial Insensitivity
Hobbes’s Geometrical Optics
Since Euclid, optics has been considered a geometrical science, which Aristotle defines as a “mixed” mathematical science. Hobbes follows this tradition and clearly places optics among physical sciences. However, modern scholars point to a confusion between geometry and physics and do not seem to agree about the way Hobbes mixes both sciences. In this paper, I return to this alleged confusion and intend to emphasize the peculiarity of Hobbes’s ge…
A Mixed-Methods Case Study of Parent Involvement in an Urban High School Serving Minority Students
Parental involvement in education has been associated with a number of positive outcomes for students. Using a mixed-methods approach, the authors examine how role construction and self-efficacy (psychological motivators), invitations (contextual motivators), and life contexts influence a parent’s decision to become involved within the context of an urban high school serving primarily Latino, African American, and immigrant children. Data collect…
The Epistemology of Resistance
This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in fruitful ways—from listening to each other, learning from each other, and mutually enriching each other’s perspectives. Medina’s epistemology of resistance offers a contextualist theory of our com…
JosepCorbí, Morality, Self‐Knowledge and Human Suffering (Routledge, London)
Color Blindness, Meta-Ignorance, and the Racial Imagination
Drawing on contemporary epistemologies of ignorance, I analyze the American ideology of color blindness as a recalcitrant form of active ignorance that operates at a meta-level. I contend that the meta-ignorance involved in color blindness operates through distorting second-order attitudes about one's cognitive and affective attitudes, resulting in cognitive and affective numbness with respect to racial matters: ignorance of one's racial ignoranc…
Hermeneutical Injustice and Polyphonic Contextualism
While in agreement with Miranda Fricker’s context-sensitive approach to hermeneutical injustice, this paper argues that this contextualist approach has to be pluralized and rendered relational in more complex ways. In the first place, I argue that the normative assessment of social silences and the epistemic harms they generate cannot be properly carried out without a pluralistic analysis of the different interpretative communities and expressive…
Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance
In this paper I argue that Foucaultian genealogy offers a critical approach to practices of remembering and forgetting which is crucial for resisting oppression and dominant ideologies. For this argument I focus on the concepts of counter-history and counter-memory that Foucault developed in the 1970’s. In the first section I analyze how the Foucaultian approach puts practices of remembering and forgetting in the context of power relations, focus…
The Relevance of Credibility Excess in a Proportional View of Epistemic Injustice
This paper defends a contextualist approach to epistemic injustice according to which instances of such injustice should be looked at as temporally extended phenomena (having developmental and historical trajectories) and socially extended phenomena (being rooted in patterns of social relations). Within this contextualist framework, credibility excesses appear as a form of undeserved epistemic privilege that is crucially relevant for matters of t…
Speaking from Elsewhere
The Relevance of Credibility Excess in a Proportional View of Epistemic Injustice
This paper defends a contextualist approach to epistemic injustice according to which instances of such injustice should be looked at as temporally extended phenomena (having developmental and historical trajectories) and socially extended phenomena (being rooted in patterns of social relations). Within this contextualist framework, credibility excesses appear as a form of undeserved epistemic privilege that is crucially relevant for matters of t…
Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance
In this paper I argue that Foucaultian genealogy offers a critical approach to practices of remembering and forgetting which is crucial for resisting oppression and dominant ideologies. For this argument I focus on the concepts of counter-history and counter-memory that Foucault developed in the 1970’s. In the first section I analyze how the Foucaultian approach puts practices of remembering and forgetting in the context of power relations, focus…
Cultural tourism and urban management in northwestern Spain
The fast growth of cultural tourism in the last few years has dramatically altered the way the architectural heritage of Spanish cities is perceived and preserved. This change in outlook has affected both the local population and the political and economic authorities. The revival of an old medieval pilgrimage road – the Route to Santiago – in the 1990s has entailed the rise to cultural prominence of a number of northwestern Spanish cities and to…
Racial Violence, Emotional Friction, and Epistemic Activism
Using Iris Marion Young's framework, this essay looks at racial violence as one of the many "faces" of racial oppression (which also include exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, and cultural domination). In the light of this analysis I argue that the fight against racial violence requires much more than identifying the perpetrators of such violence and bringing them to justice; it requires, I argue, thick critical engagements with multip…
A Mixed-Methods Case Study of Parent Involvement in an Urban High School Serving Minority Students
Parental involvement in education has been associated with a number of positive outcomes for students. Using a mixed-methods approach, the authors examine how role construction and self-efficacy (psychological motivators), invitations (contextual motivators), and life contexts influence a parent’s decision to become involved within the context of an urban high school serving primarily Latino, African American, and immigrant children. Data collect…
Identity Trouble
This paper uses the conceptual apparatus of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy to tackle a foundational issue in the philosophical literature on group identity, namely, the problem of difference. This problem suggests that any appeal to a collective identity is oppressive because it imposes a shared identity on the members of a group and suppresses the internal differences of the group. I develop a Wittgensteinian view of identity that dissolves thi…
Color Blindness, Meta-Ignorance, and the Racial Imagination
Drawing on contemporary epistemologies of ignorance, I analyze the American ideology of color blindness as a recalcitrant form of active ignorance that operates at a meta-level. I contend that the meta-ignorance involved in color blindness operates through distorting second-order attitudes about one's cognitive and affective attitudes, resulting in cognitive and affective numbness with respect to racial matters: ignorance of one's racial ignoranc…
Charles Bally
Médina José. Charles Bally : de Bergson à Saussure. In: Langages, 19e année, n°77, 1985. Le sujet entre langue et parole(s) sous la direction de Claudine Normand. pp. 95-104
The other within
This essay puts in conversation some of Seyla Benhabib’s insights about exiled, stateless and migrant populations with ongoing discussions in critical race theory about the racial exclusions of indigenous populations and populations of colour not only in the foundations of Western modern states but also in their contemporary functioning today. The essay locates these exclusions not only in the failures of states but also in their proper functioni…
Anthropologism, naturalism, and the pragmatic study of language
Les difficultés théoriques de la constitution d'une linguistique générale comme science autonome
Médina José. Les difficultés théoriques de la constitution d'une linguistique générale comme science autonome. In: Langages, 12e année, n°49, 1978. Saussure et la linguistique pré-saussurienne, sous la direction de Claudine Normand. pp. 5-23
Aesthetic Resistance
Tongues United
In this paper I will use the Bakhtinian notion of polyphony,1 of a choral dialogue of multiple and heterogeneous voices, to elaborate a pluralistic account of cultural identity in general and of Hispanic identity in particular. I will complicate and further pluralize the Bakhtinian notion by talking about the overlapping and criss-crossing dialogues of heterogeneous voices that go into the formation of cultural identities. My pluralistic view emp…
Les difficultés théoriques de la constitution d'une linguistique générale comme science autonome
Médina José. Les difficultés théoriques de la constitution d'une linguistique générale comme science autonome. In: Langages, 12e année, n°49, 1978. Saussure et la linguistique pré-saussurienne, sous la direction de Claudine Normand. pp. 5-23
Charles Bally
Médina José. Charles Bally : de Bergson à Saussure. In: Langages, 19e année, n°77, 1985. Le sujet entre langue et parole(s) sous la direction de Claudine Normand. pp. 95-104
The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy
Cristina Lafont draws upon Hilary Putnam's work in particular to criticize the linguistic idealism and relativism of the German tradition, which she traces back to the assumption that meaning determines reference. The linguistic turn in German philosophy was initiated in the eighteenth century in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. It was further developed in this century by Martin Heidegger, an…
The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
Identity Trouble
This paper uses the conceptual apparatus of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy to tackle a foundational issue in the philosophical literature on group identity, namely, the problem of difference. This problem suggests that any appeal to a collective identity is oppressive because it imposes a shared identity on the members of a group and suppresses the internal differences of the group. I develop a Wittgensteinian view of identity that dissolves thi…
Cultural tourism and urban management in northwestern Spain
The fast growth of cultural tourism in the last few years has dramatically altered the way the architectural heritage of Spanish cities is perceived and preserved. This change in outlook has affected both the local population and the political and economic authorities. The revival of an old medieval pilgrimage road – the Route to Santiago – in the 1990s has entailed the rise to cultural prominence of a number of northwestern Spanish cities and to…
Anthropologism, naturalism, and the pragmatic study of language
Language
Tongues United
In this paper I will use the Bakhtinian notion of polyphony,1 of a choral dialogue of multiple and heterogeneous voices, to elaborate a pluralistic account of cultural identity in general and of Hispanic identity in particular. I will complicate and further pluralize the Bakhtinian notion by talking about the overlapping and criss-crossing dialogues of heterogeneous voices that go into the formation of cultural identities. My pluralistic view emp…
Speaking from Elsewhere
Contextualizing Agency
The Relevance of Credibility Excess in a Proportional View of Epistemic Injustice
This paper defends a contextualist approach to epistemic injustice according to which instances of such injustice should be looked at as temporally extended phenomena (having developmental and historical trajectories) and socially extended phenomena (being rooted in patterns of social relations). Within this contextualist framework, credibility excesses appear as a form of undeserved epistemic privilege that is crucially relevant for matters of t…
Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance
In this paper I argue that Foucaultian genealogy offers a critical approach to practices of remembering and forgetting which is crucial for resisting oppression and dominant ideologies. For this argument I focus on the concepts of counter-history and counter-memory that Foucault developed in the 1970’s. In the first section I analyze how the Foucaultian approach puts practices of remembering and forgetting in the context of power relations, focus…
Hermeneutical Injustice and Polyphonic Contextualism
While in agreement with Miranda Fricker’s context-sensitive approach to hermeneutical injustice, this paper argues that this contextualist approach has to be pluralized and rendered relational in more complex ways. In the first place, I argue that the normative assessment of social silences and the epistemic harms they generate cannot be properly carried out without a pluralistic analysis of the different interpretative communities and expressive…
The Epistemology of Resistance
This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in fruitful ways—from listening to each other, learning from each other, and mutually enriching each other’s perspectives. Medina’s epistemology of resistance offers a contextualist theory of our com…
JosepCorbí, Morality, Self‐Knowledge and Human Suffering (Routledge, London)
Color Blindness, Meta-Ignorance, and the Racial Imagination
Drawing on contemporary epistemologies of ignorance, I analyze the American ideology of color blindness as a recalcitrant form of active ignorance that operates at a meta-level. I contend that the meta-ignorance involved in color blindness operates through distorting second-order attitudes about one's cognitive and affective attitudes, resulting in cognitive and affective numbness with respect to racial matters: ignorance of one's racial ignoranc…
A Mixed-Methods Case Study of Parent Involvement in an Urban High School Serving Minority Students
Parental involvement in education has been associated with a number of positive outcomes for students. Using a mixed-methods approach, the authors examine how role construction and self-efficacy (psychological motivators), invitations (contextual motivators), and life contexts influence a parent’s decision to become involved within the context of an urban high school serving primarily Latino, African American, and immigrant children. Data collect…
Ignorance and Racial Insensitivity
Hobbes’s Geometrical Optics
Since Euclid, optics has been considered a geometrical science, which Aristotle defines as a “mixed” mathematical science. Hobbes follows this tradition and clearly places optics among physical sciences. However, modern scholars point to a confusion between geometry and physics and do not seem to agree about the way Hobbes mixes both sciences. In this paper, I return to this alleged confusion and intend to emphasize the peculiarity of Hobbes’s ge…
Varieties of Hermeneutical Injustice 1
Hermeneutical injustice is the phenomenon that occurs when the intelligibility of communicators is unfairly constrained or undermined, when their meaning-making capacities encounter unfair obstacles, or when a gap in collective interpretive resources puts someone at an unfair advantage when it comes to making sense of their social experience. This chapter elucidates different versions and dimensions of the concept of hermeneutical injustice and h…
Epistemic Injustice and Epistemologies of Ignorance
This chapter examines the relationship between racial ignorance and different kinds of dysfunctions and epistemic injustices such as unequal access to and participation in knowledge practices, vitiated testimonial dynamics, and patterns of misinterpretation and distortion. It elucidates what counts as epistemic resistance, exploring how individuals and groups living under conditions of racial oppression can use their epistemic resources and abili…
The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice
The other within
This essay puts in conversation some of Seyla Benhabib’s insights about exiled, stateless and migrant populations with ongoing discussions in critical race theory about the racial exclusions of indigenous populations and populations of colour not only in the foundations of Western modern states but also in their contemporary functioning today. The essay locates these exclusions not only in the failures of states but also in their proper functioni…
Racial Violence, Emotional Friction, and Epistemic Activism
Using Iris Marion Young's framework, this essay looks at racial violence as one of the many "faces" of racial oppression (which also include exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, and cultural domination). In the light of this analysis I argue that the fight against racial violence requires much more than identifying the perpetrators of such violence and bringing them to justice; it requires, I argue, thick critical engagements with multip…
Epistemology (23 works) · Philosophy (23 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Political science (17 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Injustice (8 works)