Social Justice and Culture: On Identity, Intersectionality, and Epistemic Privilege

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Title

Social Justice and Culture: On Identity, Intersectionality, and Epistemic Privilege

Abstract/Description

At first glance, a particularist approach may not appear compatible with the universalism that is integral to many influential modern theories of justice. Identities, after all, embody a subjective perspective, which implies a partial view. How can they provide secure and objective knowledge that would be relevant to justice, which has universal reach and scope? This chapter argues that these questions can be addressed by paying attention to recent non-positivist developments in cultural and legal theorizing – including concepts such as “intersectionality” and “epistemic privilege” –at the centre of which is the claim that in many crucial instances focusing on the identities and perspectives of the socially marginalized can produce a deeper knowledge of objective social structures and their effects and “realist” theoretical understanding of social identity and its epistemic status.

Author/creator

Mohanty, Satya P.

Date

2018

In publication

Handbook on Global Social Justice

Editor

Craig, Gary

Pages

418-427

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Resource type

en Background/Context

Medium

en Print

Background/context type

en Conceptual

Open access/free-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en Yes

Language

en

ISBN

978-1-78643-142-4

DOI

10.4337/9781786431424.00040

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Elgaronline)

Citation

Mohanty, S. P. (2018). Social Justice and Culture: On Identity, Intersectionality, and Epistemic Privilege. In G. Craig (Ed.), Handbook on Global Social Justice (pp. 418–427). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431424.00040

Cited in

Community-Based Partnerships: Advancing Epistemic Rights through Improvement Research

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