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Knowing How to Feel: Mapping Affective Epistemologies of Ignorance through Numbness

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In my dissertation, Knowing How to Feel: mapping affective epistemologies of ignorance through numbness, I examine the ways by which numbness contributes to harmful “epistemic resilience,” or the phenomenon whereby systems of meaning remain stable despite counter evidence or attempts to alter them (Dotson 2014). I am most importantly concerned...

Keyword:

Charles Mills, political epistemology, critical race theory, epistemologies of ignorance, decolonial feminism, and affective ignorance

Subject:

Gender studies, Black studies, and Epistemology

Creator:

Rogers, Taylor Ann

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/02/2022

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15805 and etdadmin_upload_853183