CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Tokgoz, Merve |
|---|---|
| Title | Unraveling The Margins Of Social Understanding: Analyzing The Ways Of Overcoming Hermeneutical Injustice |
| Summary | This thesis investigates ways of overcoming hermeneutical injustice by analyzing two strategies that are creating safe and free spaces and forming integrated spaces. According to Miranda Fricker (2007), hermeneutical injustice occurs when collective hermeneutical resources render one’s social experience unintelligible, due to the marginalization of members of one’s social group from their access to shaping social understanding (p. 155). By providing examples from experiences of women, deaf, and black communities, I specify the primary cognitive harm of hermeneutical injustice as the “misidentifying of needs and desires” and the “diminishing of one’s capabilities.” I argue that marginalized groups can alleviate the harm of hermeneutical injustice by using the two strategies. In this regard, I approach integrated spaces as a complementary strategy to the method of creating safe and free spaces in terms of addressing its main shortcomings. This thesis examines the strengths and weaknesses of the two strategies in order to show how they can together contribute to overcoming hermeneutical injustice. |
| Supervisor | Anca Gheaus |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/tokgoz_merve.pdf |
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