dc.contributor.advisor |
Russell, Matheson |
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dc.contributor.author |
Shingade, Balamohan |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2022-10-17T22:46:28Z |
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dc.date.available |
2022-10-17T22:46:28Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2022 |
en |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/2292/61599 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The search for justice in Aotearoa New Zealand will depend, in part, on how we contend with and overcome
the settler-colonial situation—in a word, it will be based on the struggle for decolonisation. This thesis aims
to show how epistemic goals and hermeneutical practices are not incidental, but intrinsic to such political
struggles. Focusing on the epistemic dimension of Indigenous–settler relations, I discuss the asymmetrical
practices of interpretation and understanding across these groups, and specifically across te ao Māori and
the Western worldview.
In the context of settler colonialism, when Indigenous peoples are wronged in their capacities as knowers
and knowledge holders, they experience “epistemic injustice” (Fricker 2007). More precisely, the thesis
demonstrates how “hermeneutical injustice” occurs due to deficiencies, dysfunctions, and distortions
maintained in the dominant hermeneutical resources, which settlers in turn impose onto Indigenous peoples
while simultaneously marginalising them from shaping dominant interpretations and understandings in a
way that draws upon Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing.
I further demonstrate that cross-cultural knowledge practices are socio-politically motivated such that the
marginally situated make genuine efforts at interpretation and understanding, whereas dominantly situated
interlocutors practice what I term “disingenuous interpretive charity.” Correspondingly, reflecting on
questions of blameworthiness and responsibility, I suggest that settlers’ individual and collective
responsibility for hermeneutical justice should be conceived as forward-looking and solidarity-oriented.
Finally, I propose “unsettling” as a possible method, which opens to ontologico-epistemic shifts, and helps
clear the space for thinking through what is unthinkable under the logics of settler colonialism. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA |
en |
dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
en |
dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/ |
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dc.title |
Hermeneutical Injustice in the Context of Settler Colonialism |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
en |
thesis.degree.discipline |
Literature |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.date.updated |
2022-09-12T22:44:47Z |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: the author |
en |
dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
en |