The “All Lives Matter” response: QUD-shifting as epistemic injustice

Keiser, Jessica

doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03171-y

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“…The rhetorical sway of arguing that ‘All Lives Matter’ resides in its seeming universality. The ALM narrative routinely disregards the inequalities and injustices experienced by the Black community which BLM is calling attention to, by repositioning the ‘question under discussion’ from one of ‘Black lives’ to that of ‘all lives’ (Keiser, 2021). This repositioning then supports an argument whereby, a concern with 'all lives' is by default also a concern with Black lives and a commitment to racial equality.…”

Section: Mattering and Social Protestmentioning

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Protest, race and grievability: What does it mean for lives to matter?

Kilby

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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In this article I bring the political philosophy of Judith Butler to bear on contemporary and inter‐related arguments about race and (in)equality. Focusing most directly on the UK context and taking account of recent changes in UK law, I further address the role of social protest in the pursuit of equality and social justice. Starting with a seemingly simple question which echoes the language of contemporary social protest, I ask ‘what does it mean for lives to matter’. In responding to this I pursue the following aims: (i) develop an awareness of human mattering which moves beyond the lens of neoliberal individualism; (ii) generate an understanding of protest as an intensely human and ethical endeavour; (iii) engage Butler's philosophical arguments in a manner that is accessible to those unfamiliar with their work. I begin with an overview of contemporary social protests and outline recent developments in UK law before introducing key concepts from Butler's work. I then apply Butler's arguments to explore the construct and the language of mattering, before expanding on what it means to matter and the role of social protest in the pursuit of grievable lives.

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Protest, race and grievability: What does it mean for lives to matter?

Kilby

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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Distorted Debates

Jaque

2022

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One way to silence the powerless, Langton has taught us, is to pre-emptively disable their ability to do things with words. In this paper I argue that speakers can be silenced in a different way. You can let them speak, and obscure the meaning of their words afterwards. My aim is to investigate this form of silencing, that I call retroactive distortion. In a retroactive distortion, the meaning of the words of a speaker is distorted by the effect of a subsequent speech act by a different speaker. After introducing this notion, I explore some reasons why retroactive distortions can be difficult to challenge and argue that, besides constituting a communicative injustice, they can eliminate topics from public consideration and therefore erode public debate.

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Communicative Gaslighting

McDonald

2024

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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The “All Lives Matter” response: QUD-shifting as epistemic injustice

Cited by 5 publications

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Protest, race and grievability: What does it mean for lives to matter?

Protest, race and grievability: What does it mean for lives to matter?

Distorted Debates

Communicative Gaslighting

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