Righting epistemic wrongs in post-colonial Australia: Imagination, affect, and institutions.
This paper explores institutional interventions into the perpetuation of wrongful epistemic practices. In particular, it discusses the ability of institutions to constructively engage the imaginations and affects of institutional actors in order to meliorate epistemic agency, and to foster epistemic co-operation between members of diverse communities. I argue that institutions have the potential to mitigate epistemic wrongs in ways that extend beyond their capacity to exploit feelings of shame, hope, and fear through mechanisms of publicity, punishment, and reward. This paper draws on a recent example of a successful social justice initiative in Australia, the Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project, to explore how institutions may help to cultivate sociable affects such as trust, concern, and esteem in order to support epistemic virtue and joint epistemic action across significant social and cultural divides.
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Wed Oct 25, 2017 2am – 3:30am Coordinated Universal Time
