Resisting Post-Truth Politics as Epistemicide: Learning from Trans*, Indigenous American and Palestinian Lived Experiences
Patrick J. Vernon,
Charlotte Galpin
Abstract:Building upon Galpin and Vernon’s 2023 The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) piece, this article extends the notion of post-truth politics as discursive violence to post-truth politics as epistemicide in order to make sense of global crises in 2024. Reflecting on this political moment, it highlights the ways in which trans*, Indigenous American and Palestinian communities are some of those who have been particularly targeted by the eliminationist logics that underpin Western moder… Show more
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