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- Title
Hermeneutical Backlash: Trans Youth Panics as Epistemic Injustice.
- Authors
George, B. R.; Goguen, Stacey
- Abstract
In this paper we use the contemporary example of trans youth panics to introduce the notion of hermeneutical backlash, in which defenders of an established, unjust hermeneutical regime actively work to undermine and discredit hermeneutical liberation. We argue that the strategies and tropes of trans youth panics illustrate a general propaganda vulnerability of epistemic liberation movements (including familiar examples from recent history), and so are troubling for reasons that go beyond their application to trans youth. This exploration of a few specific cases of hermeneutical liberation and hermeneutical backlash calls attention to the need for further theoretical work on the dynamics of struggles for (and against) hermeneutical justice.
- Subjects
CIVIL rights movements; YOUTHS' attitudes; LIBERTY; SOCIAL justice; SOCIAL movements
- Publication
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2021, Vol 7, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
2371-2570
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5206/fpq/2021.4.13518