Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (Philosophy - Enlightenment - Critique)

Recently, both liberal philosophy of recognition and theories of epistemic injustice have come under attack for failing to reconstruct how marginalized groups find sources of recognition and agency. To understand social struggles well, we need to think of the way in which those within the struggle act towards emancipatory change instead of focusing on the (re)actions of those in power. This volume brings together leading scholars working at the intersection of epistemic injustice theories and recognition theories, setting out to apply insights from this relation to contemporary phenomena and backlashes in the formation and acts of socially struggling emancipators – also considering ideology critique, epistemology of ignorance, standpoint theory, and theories of consciousness raising.

Hilkje C. Hänel (Dr. phil.) lehrt und forscht an der Universität Potsdam in der politischen und sozialen Epistemologie, feministischen Philosophie, politischen Theorie und angewandten Ethik mit einem Schwerpunkt auf den Themen Migration und Behinderung.