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Working Together Across Difference: Some Considerations on Emotions and Political Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Uma Narayan
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Abstract

Uma Narayan attempts to clarify what the feminist notion of the ‘epistemic privilege of the oppressed’ does and does not imply. She argues that the fact that oppressed ‘insiders’ have epistemic privilege regarding their oppression creates problems in dialogue with and coalitionary politics involving ‘outsiders’ who do not share the oppression, since the latter fail to come to terms with the epistemic privilege of the insiders. She concretely analyzes different ways in which the emotions of insiders can be inadvertantly hurt by outsiders and suggests ways in which such problems can be minimized.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Summer 1988 , pp. 31 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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Footnotes

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I wish to thank Martin Eisenberg, Mary Gibson and Howard McGary for the many stimulating discussions out of which this paper came to be written. I wish to thank Alison Jaggar, Iris Marion Young and Karen Warren for the many helpful comments they provided on the issues as well as for the tremendous encouragement they have provided.

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