Ezgi Sertler
Biographic Data
| ID | 6533494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ezgi Sertler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ezgi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sertler |
| SIGNATURE | SERTLER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah Valley University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6417-5684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Administrative Violence
Accounts of structural violence characterize the institutional and bureaucratic production of systematic population-level harms as violence while also construing these harms as inadvertent and unintentional. We argue that such conceptions are poorly suited to capture the relationship between administrative systems and the production of violence under settler colonialism. We offer an account of administrative violence as an organizing feature of s…
Injustice by design
Systemic epistemic failings in institutions are often explained through settler epistemologies and settler colonial frameworks that both obscure and reproduce the conditions necessary for those failings to endure. What is never questioned in the standard picture of institutional epistemic injustice is the implicit origin myth of an ‘institutional big bang’ that spawned many modern social institutions out of presumably noble orienting goals for a …
Notes from a Structural Epistemologist
In answering my undergraduate students’ questions about what I do, I keep coming back to the term structural epistemology . If some students push me further to not hide behind terms, I tell them: I study structures (social, political, and cultural institutions and arrangements)—not all of them at the same time, obviously—and what they do to our knowledge practices (what we know and how we know). And I give some examples: how refugee regimes know …
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Notes from a Structural Epistemologist
In answering my undergraduate students’ questions about what I do, I keep coming back to the term structural epistemology . If some students push me further to not hide behind terms, I tell them: I study structures (social, political, and cultural institutions and arrangements)—not all of them at the same time, obviously—and what they do to our knowledge practices (what we know and how we know). And I give some examples: how refugee regimes know …
Injustice by design
Systemic epistemic failings in institutions are often explained through settler epistemologies and settler colonial frameworks that both obscure and reproduce the conditions necessary for those failings to endure. What is never questioned in the standard picture of institutional epistemic injustice is the implicit origin myth of an ‘institutional big bang’ that spawned many modern social institutions out of presumably noble orienting goals for a …
Administrative Violence
Accounts of structural violence characterize the institutional and bureaucratic production of systematic population-level harms as violence while also construing these harms as inadvertent and unintentional. We argue that such conceptions are poorly suited to capture the relationship between administrative systems and the production of violence under settler colonialism. We offer an account of administrative violence as an organizing feature of s…
Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Bureaucracy (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Critical Race Theory in Education (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Harm (1 work) · Injustice (1 work) · Knowledge production (1 work)