Epistemologies of Discomfort

What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence

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ID12967311
AuthorsShari Stone-Mediatore (Ohio Wesleyan University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume4
Issue1
Pages25-45
Publication date2010-03-12
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Social Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788
PublisherBrock University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26522/ssj.v4i1.1007
OpenAlexW2138695942
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

This paper extends feminist critiques of epistemic authority by examining their particular relevance in contexts of institutionalized violence. By reading feminist criticism of "experts" together with theories of institutionalized violence, I argue that typical expert modes of thinking are incapable of rigorous knowledge of institutionalized violence because such knowledge requires a distinctive kind of thinking-within-discomfort for which conventionally trained experts are ill-suited. I turn to a newly active group of epistemic agents-anti-war relatives of soldiers-to examine the role that undervalued epistemic traits can play in knowledge of war and other forms of structural violence

Close reading · Criticism · Epistemology · Political science · Reading (process · Relevance (law · Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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