The Prison of Misrecognition
The Epistemic Struggle against 'Bad Words' in Philippine Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2364052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Garrido (0000-0001-7764-7513, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07352751251350963 |
| OpenAlex | W4412371695 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 52 |
For scholars of the Global South, epistemic struggle happens in the particular, that is, over the course of debates around particular models of reality. To illustrate, I reconstruct debates around an influential model of Philippine politics, arguing that the model is premised on a set of 'bad words' and that these bad words have real effects. These bad words produce a prison of misrecognition. Delving into this literature yields a finer-grained picture of epistemic struggle. Specifically, we can discern three kinds of blindnesses: ontological, epistemological, and sociological; two kinds of pain: feeling stuck in a cognitive prison and worse, feeling one deserves to be stuck there; and one kind of agency at stake: not just the capacity for action but also the capacity for subjects to act within the parameters of their own reality
Criminology · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Prison · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |