Sentences with phrase «epistemic violence»

Such thinking leads to or supports things like far - right Hindu nationalism, for example, or absurd claims that epistemic violence is the same or worse (as Spivak once famously claimed) than actual violence, or harmful rejections of science, or the very essentialism denied by its proponents.

As for actual violence vs epistemic violence, I think the US led illegal (and ill reasoned) wars have killed more people in my lifetime, at least politically aware lifetime, than anyone else's actions have, and this is usually brushed aside as just one of those things.