Can the Discursively Privileged Think?: A Re-Articulation of Social Justice
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https://doi.org/10.29173/mruhr62Abstract
This paper interrogates Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak? and Wendy Brown’s Wounded Attachments, applying their critiques of the Subject to explore a possible re-articulation of the social justice framework. Contemporary mainstream social justice articulations are disrupted when Spivak and Brown problematize issues of identities rooted in injury and representation of marginal positions. Social justice must move beyond ‘good intentions’ and the tension between egalitarianism and liberal democracy, and in such a way that does not heighten the position of intellectuals, but rather questions and disrupts our presupposed authority.
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