Date: 4 December 2024
Time: 10:00-11:45
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.
Research seminar with Katherine Puddifoot, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. Her recent research focuses on stereotyping, implicit bias, epistemic injustice and distorted memories.
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Abstract:
In this talk I will expand upon the idea that I previously developed in work with Clara Sandelind (2024), that governmental policies can wrong people by impacting their ability to remember the past. They can do this by, for example, imposing stress and trauma that leads to damage to people’s memories. This problem can then be compounded if people are required to provide an account of their personal pasts to gain support, again due to government policies. Sandelind and I have previously argued that this is a distinctively mnemonic form epistemic injustice. In this talk it shall be argued that avoiding this mnemonic epistemic injustice will require a change in our thinking about remembering to reflect the ways that memories are externally structured by policies. There has been a previous emphasis in work on remembering on collective or cultural memories, and on how what we remember can be shaped by, or even constituted by, our physical or cultural environments. But in this talk it shall be argued that cases of mnemonic epistemic injustice emphasise the need to give recognition to how remembering can also be specifically shaped, and unjustly shaped, by governmental policies.
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