The reading plan will be structured around three successive question clusters:
WHAT gets broken? The phenomena of epistemic injustice and discursive injustice have been construed and theorised in a variety of ways: as wrongs of objectification, subordination, oppression, degradation, or subversions of agency, to name just a few. The aim of this first reading cycle is to review extant theorisations, with an eye to developing an integrated map of the landscape.
HOW can it be repaired, or put right? Here, too, the aim is to scope and map existing possibilities. These include: discrete actions (e.g. apologies; memorials; reforms) and continuous, open-ended processes (e.g. normative shifts; conceptual amelioration); inward-facing (e.g. virtue cultivation; remorse; guilt; rearrangement of doxastic attitudes, motivations) and outward-facing (e.g. institutional reviews; expressions of acknowledgment; of fitting emotions or commitments; explanation); backward-looking vs forward-looking interventions.
WHO should do the repairing? Who can? Who can’t?
The reading group will meet every other Wednesday at 13:30-15:30, WET/Lisbon time. Those who are interested in joining for this and/or subsequent sessions should get in touch with the organisers:
Álvaro Domínguez-Armas, adarmas@fcsh.unl.pt
Eleonora Volta, e.volta1@docenti.unisr.it
Giulia Terzian, giuliaterzian@fcsh.unl.pt