Philosophy Faculty Work
Title
Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knowledge of Violence
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Publication Title
Studies in Social Justice
Volume Number
4
Issue Number
1
DOI
10.26522/ssj.v4i1.1007
Abstract
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.
ISSN
1911-4788
First Page
25
Last Page
45
Recommended Citation
Stone-Mediatore, Shari, "Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knowledge of Violence" (2010). Philosophy Faculty Work. 6.
https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/phil_pubs/6
Link Out URL
https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v4i1.1007