Intersubjective Meanings and Oppressive Social Practices

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ID12148002
AuthorsLaura S Martins (0000-0001-5027-3996, University of Chicago, corresponding author), Laura Ariadne Martin (University of Chicago)
Year2026
Pages1-13
Publication date2026-02-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/hyp.2025.10050
OpenAlexW7131101505
LanguageEN
References cited20

Recently, social philosophers have argued for a practice-based social ontology that can furnish a robustly social account of oppression and, in turn, illuminate the obstacles to and possibilities for social change. This paper argues for an intersubjective approach to oppressive social practices. Oppressive meanings constitute relationships between agents in ways they neither choose nor decide on; agents uphold those meanings through their relationships to others. This approach, I argue, can illuminate a critical case of an oppressive social practice that revolves around struggles for recognition and the dynamics of social change

Ontology · Oppression · Social change · Social dynamics · Social ontology · Social philosophy · Social practice · Social relation · Critical Realism in Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

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