The epistemology of resistance: gender and racial oppression, epistemic injustice, and resistant imaginations

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Acknowledgements Foreword: Insensitivity and Blindness Introduction. Resistance, Democratic Sensibilities, and the Cultivation of Perplexity A. The Importance of Dissent and the Imperative of Interaction B. Resistance, Perplexity, and Multiperspectivalism C. Overview Chapter 1. Active Ignorance, Others, and Friction 1.1. Active Ignorance and the Vices of the Privileged 1.2. Lucidity and the Virtues of the Oppressed 1.3. Resistance, Responsibility, and the Regulative Principles of Friction Chapter 2. Resistance as Vice and as Virtue 2.1. The Excess of Authority and the Resulting Insensitivity 2.1.1. Justice as Interactive, Comparative and Contrastive 2.1.2. Differential Authority, Systematic Injustice, and the Social Imaginary 2.2. The Vice of Avoiding Friction, Hermeneuticalal Injustice, and the Problem of Meta-Blindness. 2.3. Striving for Open-Mindedness: Friction and Counterpoints as Correctives of Meta-Blindness Chapter 3. Imposed Silences and Shared Hermeneutical Responsibilities 3.1. Silences and the Communicative Approach to Injustice 3.2. Communicative Pluralism and Hermeneutical Injustice 3.3. Our Hermeneutical Responsibilities with respect to Multiple Publics Chapter 4. Responsibility and Culpable Ignorance 4.1. Responsible Agency, Knowledge/Ignorance, and Social Injustice 4.2. Betraying One's Responsibilities under Conditions of Oppression: Social Contextuality, Interconnectedness, and Culpable Ignorance 4.2.A. Pig Heads, Burning Crosses, and Car keys 4.2.B. The Social Division of Cognitive Laziness 4.2.C. Blindness to Differences 4.2.D. Blindness to Social Relationality and the Relevance Dilemma 4.3. Overlapping Insensitivities, Culture-Blaming, and Gender Violence against Third-World Women Chapter 5. Meta-Lucidity, and the Everyday Struggle Toward Justice 5.1. Living Up to One's Responsibilities under Conditions of Oppression: Meta-Lucidity 5.2. Promoting Lucidity and Social Change 5.3. Echoing: Chained Action, Epistemic Heroes, and Social Networks 5.3.1. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Courage, Critical Imagination and Friction 5.3.2. Rosa Parks: Counter-Performativity, Chained Agency, and Social Networks Chapter 6. Resistant Imagination and Radical Solidarity 6.1. Pluralistic Communities of Resistence 6.2. Normative Pluralism and Radical Solidarity 6.3. Friction and Insurrectionary Genealogies 6.4. Guerrilla Pluralism, Counter-Memories, and Epistemologies of Ignorance 6.5. Resistant Imaginations: Toward a Kaleidoscopic Social Sensibility 6.6. Conclusion: Network Solidarity Coda References