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BASIC CONCEPTS NEEDED TO ENHANCE THIS READING

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BASIC CONCEPTS NEEDED TO ENHANCE THIS READING

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Epistemic exploitation occurs when privileged persons compel marginalized persons to educate them about the nature of their oppression.

Epistemic exploitation is marked by unrecognized, uncompensated, emotionally taxing, coerced epistemic labor.

The coercive and exploitative aspects of the phenomenon are exemplified by the unpaid nature of the educational labor and its associated opportunity costs, the double bind that marginalized persons must navigate when faced with the demand to educate, and the need for additional labor created by the default skepticism of the privileged (Berenstain, 2016)

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Jose Medina, "Protest, Silencing, and Epistemic Activism" at CGEP

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Institutions of higher education often demand that faculty of color provide knowledge or education for diversity training and other programs that specifically depend on marginalized people sharing information about their experiences, perspectives, and marginalization within the academy. When this labor goes uncompensated and unrecognized, as it so often does, these institutional demands on faculty of color result in epistemic exploitation

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why do we need to make notes about the readings and discuss them?

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What are the main takeaway points from this week's readings?  

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What are the main takeaway points from this week's readings?  

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ENCODING

We get information into our brains through encoding, which is the input of information into the memory system. Once we receive sensory information from the environment, our brains label or code it. We organize the information with similar information and connect new concepts to existing concepts. Encoding information occurs through both automatic processing and effortful processing.

What are the most effective ways to encode important memories well? Semantic, visually, acoustically

What are the best ways to store and retrieve it?

For more information, see this chapter on memory and information processing.

Add graphics, videos, sounds, or related concepts to your notes. This process may enhance your ability to encode, process, and retrieve information.

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" Epistemic Injustice: The Word of Others Broadly speaking, prejudicial dysfunction in testimonial practice can be of two kinds. Either the prejudice results in the speaker’s receiving more credibility than she rationally deserves – credibility excess – or it results in her receiving less credibility than she rationally deserves – credibility deficit. 6 Consider the immediate discursive impact of accent, for instance. Not only does a speaker’s accent carry a great deal of baggage in terms of how a hearer perceives the speaker socially; I would suggest that part and parcel of this social perception are implications for how the hearer perceives the speaker epistemically. Accent can have a significant impact on how much credibility the hearer affords the speaker, especially in a one-off exchange.  I do not mean that someone’s accent is especially likely to lead a hearer, even an intensely prejudiced one, simply to disbelieve some perfectly believable assertion, or simply to believe some otherwise incredible assertion"

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Let me tell you what it feels like to stand in front of a white man and explain privilege to him.

It hurts.

It makes you tired.

Sometimes, it makes you want to cry.

Sometimes it is exhilarating.

Every single time, it is hard.

Every single time i get angry that i have to do this, that this is my job, that this shouldn’t be my job.

Every single time, I am proud of myself that I’ve been able to say these things because I used to not be able to and because some days, I just don’t want to.

Manissa McCleave Maharawal, 2011

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Degrees

PhD (2017) Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
MPhil (2013) Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
BA (2005) Sarah Lawrence College

Bio

I am a cultural anthropologist and critical geographer whose work focuses on eviction, race, displacement and the spatial and temporal dynamics of contemporary urban social movements from Occupy Wall Street and anti-gentrification activism to Black Lives Matter. I am broadly interested in historical and contemporary struggles for social justice in cities.

Currently I am preparing my first book manuscript titled: The Activist's City: Social Movements, Structures of Feeling, and the Politics of Place this work traces the spatial and temporal dynamics of waves of mobilization, organizing and protest as activists navigate the complex afterlives of "movement moments". Bringing together affect theory, critical race theory, oral history, political ethnography and urban studies, this book examines how in San Francisco and New York City, in the midst of rapid gentrification activists transformed urban spaces to create a counter-hegemonic politics of place.

I am also co-Editor of "Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance" (PM Press 2021), a collaborative edited volume by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.

My work has been published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Antipode, Sociological Quarterly, American Anthropologist, Anthropological Theory, Anthropological Quarterly, Abolition Journal, Radical Housing Journal. In addition it has been published in media outlets such as The Guardian, N+1, AlterNet, The Indypendent, Counterpunch, and Waging Nonviolence, among other online and print periodicals, as well as in a number of edited books and anthologies.

My research and writing have been funded by the The American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New York Council for the Humanities, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and The Center for Place Culture and Politics. I am also been the co-recipient of major professional awards from the American Studies Association (The Susan Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities) and the American Association of Geographers (The Alternative Geography Award).

I am the co-founder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's Narratives of Displacement and Resistance project. This digital humanities and oral history project documents urban change and resistance in the San Francisco Bay Area by foregrounding the stories of people who have been, or who are being, displaced. As a trained oral historian I conduct life-history interviews with activists in order to explore how life history contributes to the formation of "radical" politics. Through collecting life-histories and placing them on a digital online map of the city, the project creates a living archive, documenting deep and detailed neighborhood and personal histories.

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I am a cultural anthropologist and critical geographer whose work focuses on eviction, race, displacement and the spatial and temporal dynamics of contemporary urban soc...

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From a faith perspective

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What is Epistemic Justice, and Why Should We Care