%0 Journal Article
%T Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence
%A Shari Stone-Mediatore
%J Studies in Social Justice
%D 2010
%I University of Windsor
%X This paper extends feminist critiques of epistemic authority by examining their particular relevance in contexts of institutionalized violence. By reading feminist criticism of "experts" together with theories of institutionalized violence, I argue that typical expert modes of thinking are incapable of rigorous knowledge of institutionalized violence because such knowledge requires a distinctive kind of thinking-within-discomfort for which conventionally trained experts are ill-suited. I turn to a newly active group of epistemic agents-anti-war relatives of soldiers-to examine the role that undervalued epistemic traits can play in knowledge of war and other forms of structural violence.
%K epistemic authority
%K feminist epistemology
%K institutionalized violence
%K engaged knowledges
%U http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/SSJ/article/view/2851