Testimonial Void as a Form of Silencing Oppressed Knowers the Case of Women in Francoist Spain
In this talk, I characterize a new kind of testimonial injustice, a phenomenon I call ‘testimonial void’, which involves a substantial extension of the limits of the original concept put forward by Miranda Fricker in her book Epistemic Injustice (2007). Testimonial void occurs when a speaker withholds epistemic materials on the basis of an epistemically and ethically faulty assumption that a he...