Rejecting Identities
Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6451966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Edlich (0009-0000-6556-7612, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Alex Archer (0000-0001-9398-6427, Tilburg University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 463-475 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Epistemology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-1728 • E-ISSN: 1464-5297 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02691728.2024.2407646 |
| OpenAlex | W4403143869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 38 |
Hermeneutical injustice means being unjustly prevented from making sense of one's experiences, identity or circumstances and/or communicating about them. The literature focusses almost exclusively on whether people have access to adequate conceptual resources. In this paper, we discuss a different kind of hermeneutical struggle caused by stigma. We argue that in some cases of hermeneutic injustice people have access to hermeneutical resources apt to understand their identity but reject employing these due to the stigma attached to the identity. We begin with a reinterpretation of one of the cases discussed in the literature, Edmund White's novel A Boy's Own Story. We argue that in this case hermeneutic resources are available but are rejected due to the stigma attached to homosexuality. We then present two analogous kinds of cases: alcohol addiction and being the victim of intimate partner violence. Here, too, hermeneutic injustice occurs because of the stigma attached to an identity rather due to unavailability of resources. We close by suggesting that these cases may, additionally, involve the wrong of 'Tightlacing': by meddling with their self-conception, stigma can manipulate individuals into a view of themselves that licenses inappropriate demands on them and makes them complicit in the erasure of their identities
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Injustice · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Critical Race Theory in Education · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
What Are We Talking About?
Epistemic Injustice and the Preservation of Ignorance
The Public Stigma of Mental Illness and Drug Addiction
Rape Myths and Domestic Abuse Myths as Hermeneutical Injustices
Varieties of Hermeneutical Injustice 1
The Intimate Partner Violence Stigmatization Model and Barriers to Help Seeking
Stigma
The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance
Tightlacing and Abusive Normative Address
How People in Recovery Manage the Stigma of Being an Alcoholic
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
A Cautionary Tale
The Epistemology of Resistance
Hermeneutical Dissent and the Species of Hermeneutical Injustice
One Too Many
Relational Knowing and Epistemic Injustice
Two Kinds of Unknowing
Hermeneutical Injustice
Asian Male Domestic Violence Victims
Help‐seeking among male victims of partner abuse
The man-not
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |