Seventeenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

Talking about epistemic injustice implies diverse reflections, one of them is related with the idea of a distorted social perception. According to Fricker (2017) “epistemic injustice” plays an essential role in social experience, because it leaves some aspects of society such as knowledge or beliefs in a vulnerable position. Furthermore, some practices tend to establish dominance over the degree of validation of other possibilities, which mostly are part of a minority. A controversial subject about this situation is the case of Latin America. The main purpose of this text is to start a dialogue about a possible way of dealing with this “epistemic injustice” in a post-colonialism world to understand how Western discursive continuing undermine the configuration of diverse aspects in society, including culture and artistic practices. In addition, this text highlights the fact that even tough exist efforts about how native people in Latin America would be included in our modern society we need to be aware about the essential role of a whole mechanism, which includes a good praxis and the true recognized of another epistemic discourses. To achieve this, we need to explore the following concept’s “prejudice”, “ignorance”, “testimonial injustice”, “hermeneutical injustice”, and “hermeneutical marginalization” to explain factors that influence in the configuration of this “distorted social perception”. The first challenge is focused on understanding post-colonialism discourse as an example of “epistemic injustice”. And the second is focused on the proposal of an intercultural approach as a possible solution to this kind of “ignorance”.