Hermeneutical Injustice: Incidental and Systematic

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Description

The article's account, following Fricker (2007), of hermeneutical injustice as occurring when a gap in collective interpretive resources disadvantages someone in making sense of their social experiences. It distinguishes two kinds: "systematic cases involve persistent and wide-ranging marginalization of some social identities while incidental cases involve localized, person-specific experiences". The article uses the systematic case to describe black girls' social experience being obscured from collective understanding in school.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Judging whether a gap in collective hermeneutical resources is caused and maintained by wide-ranging and persistent hermeneutical marginalization (systematic) or is localized and one-off (incidental)

Constraints

Target Learners

• Students from marginalized racial, gender and social-class groups in school settings, such as the black adolescents in the ethnography the article analyzes

Target Learning Objectives

• Identifying when students' social experiences are obscured from collective understanding in schools

Claims

• Eradicating Hermeneutical Injustice Requires Social Equality [+W]
• Black Girls Face Testimonial And Structural Hermeneutical Injustice In School [+W]

Related Theories

• Epistemic Injustice
• Varieties Of Testimonial Injustice Wanderer Hookway

Examples

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Key Sources

• Göktürk, D. (2021). Epistemic Injustice and Cultural Processes in Education. Kastamonu Education Journal, 29(1), 218-227. https://doi.org/10.24106/kefdergi.732138

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title	Hermeneutical Injustice: Incidental and Systematic
description	The article's account, following Fricker (2007), of hermeneutical injustice as occurring when a gap in collective interpretive resources disadvantages someone in making sense of their social experiences.
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