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\u27Testimonial Throttling’ and Epistemic Injustice
Get PDFThis essay provides a novel account of epistemic injustice by changing the standpoint of analysis from the marginalised to the oppressor. Previous investigations into epistemic injustice have shown how members of a marginalised group are harmed as knowers through their own speech. The framework that I will build --- incorporating core elements of Fricker and Dotson’s work --- focuses on speakers who truncate their own speech in conversation with a member of a marginalised social group, due to a bias against said audience. Testimonial throttling, at its core, is a restriction of access to the pool of knowledge due to bias. While a complete exposition of Fricker and Dotson’s work falls outwith the bounds of this essay, their accounts of ‘testimonial injustice’ and ‘testimonial quieting’, respectively, are instrumental in my account of ‘testimonial throttling’. After describing the foundations of this new account of epistemic injustice, I will propose a set of conditions along with thought experiment that describes a specific instance of testimonial throttling. Having defined testimonial throttling, I show that it covers a gap in the literature and provides insight into a vast array of resultant epistemic and practical harms. Before concluding I discuss a possible recourse for both the speaker and audience to combat testimonial throttling itself
Tribes and Tribalism in the Syrian Uprising
Get PDFHistorians, sociologists and political scientists have shown a great interest in tribalism, ethnicity and religious identities in the Middle East for many years, and have attempted to study their influence on the stability of the states in the region. The resilience of tribes towards the traumatic events of the twentieth century highlights their capacity to adapt to changing conditions on the ground, such as the shock of colonialism, which created new political borders in the Middle East, thus hindering tribal movement and migration, and the shock of Arab national-ism, which considered the tribe as a backward part of society that needed to be modernized and incorporated into modern society
The Images of Syrian Refugees in the Mainstream Narrative: A Case Study of Lebanon
Get PDFIn “The Images of Syrian Refugees in the Mainstream Narrative: A Case Study of Lebanon”, Ahmad Barakat documents how mainstream media in countries hosting Syrian refugees, Lebanon in particular, is complicit in “communicating a negative image of Syrian refugees”. Through “overreaction, panic, and focus on the most controversial and sensitive problems in the host communities”, the media has communicated an image of the Syrian refugee as “ranging between being pitiful and being ISIS affiliates”. What this has sadly amounted to, in so far as the majority of Syrian refugees are concerned, is a choice “between the horrific or something worse.
Intersectionality
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Before starting this reflective essay, I acknowledge that the work of feminist anthropologists is not timeless and covers a vast range of ideas such that I do not assert that my learning condensed here is in any way exhaustive. The poem I wrote below speaks to the unevenness of inequality, focusing on intersectionality, multiple axes of gendered inequality, and resistance through corporeal practices
Against Hijras as the Quintessential \u27Third Sex\u27: Gayatri Reddy Book Review
Get PDFGender and sexuality studies are a hot topic in the field of anthropology, with certain groups of people being typified in these debates through the assumption of their sexual differences. Hijras, phenotypic men who undergo sacrificial emasculation and wear female attire, are such an identity under the scrutiny of researchers that have aimed to capture their lives, or a limited version of them, for application within their ethnographies, films, or newspaper projects
Review: Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema; Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli
Get PDFThe double edge of lament: Love and justice at the end of the world
Get PDFWritten in the run-up to the COP26 summit held in Glasgow, this review essay reflects on theological tools for the climate justice movement in conversation with five recent books.
Reviewed works:
Catherine Keller, Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2021)
Thomas Lynch, Apocalyptic Political Theology: Hegel, Taubes and Malabou. Political Theologies (London: Bloomsbury, 2019)
Alastair McIntosh, Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2020)
Hannah Malcolm, ed., Words for a Dying World: Stories of Grief and Courage from the Global Church (London: SCM Press, 2020)
Frances Ward, Like There’s No Tomorrow: Climate Crisis, Eco-Anxiety and God. (Durham: Sacristy Press, 2020
“Through a Glass Darkly: Journeys through Science, Faith and Doubt – A Memoir” by Alister McGrath
No full textReview of Alister McGrath, Through a Glass Darkly: Journeys through Science, Faith and Doubt – A Memoir (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2021), pp. viii + 225, ISBN: 978-1529327625. £9.9