Abstract
Abstract
This chapter explores the relationship between awkwardness and epistemic and social injustice. Awkwardness inhibits the development of hermeneutical resources, making it hard to conceptualize our experiences and communicate them to others. In this way, awkwardness can be seen as a significant source of ignorance and of epistemic injustice. But this is not the only way awkwardness complicates communication. The chapter discusses several ways in which awkwardness stops us from developing the resources we need to hold others accountable and communicate our complaints. Awkwardness thus plays an important role in constructing and maintaining silence around issues like racism, misogyny, and ableism. The chapter concludes by returning to the relationship between awkwardness and shame.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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