The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance

by José Medina

The Epistemology of Protest offers a polyphonic theory of protest as a mechanism for political communication, group constitution, and epistemic empowerment. The book analyzes the communicative power of protest to break social silences and disrupt insensitivity and complicity with injustice. Philosopher Jos Medina also elucidates the power of protest movements to transform social sensibilities and change the political imagination. Medina's theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197660916
• ISBN13: 9780197660911
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 8.9"