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HYPATIA-A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 236-257Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01177.x
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Too often, identifying practices of silencing is a seemingly impossible exercise. Here I claim that attempting to give a conceptual reading of the epistemic violence present when silencing occurs can help distinguish the different ways members of oppressed groups are silenced with respect to testimony. I offer an account of epistemic violence as the failure, owing to pernicious ignorance, of hearers to meet the vulnerabilities of speakers in linguistic exchanges. Ultimately, I illustrate that by focusing on the ways in which hearers fail to meet speaker dependency in a linguistic exchange, efforts can be made to demarcate the different types of silencing people face when attempting to testify from oppressed positions in society.
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