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extracted speech

📖 Definitions

"speech that an agent is (in some sense) made to produce" (McKinney 2016, 259). "epistemic and social coercion may be used to produce testimony that is subordinating" (Pohlhaus 2017, 22)

💡 Examples

  • Central Park Five: five male juveniles of color were compelled to give false confessions and were consequently wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting and attacking a white woman jogging in New York City’s Central Park

🔗 Relations

📚 References

  • McKinney, R. 2016. “Extracted speech.” Social Theory and Practice, 42(2): 258–284.
  • Pohlhaus Jr., Gaile. 2017. “Varieties of Epistemic Injustice.” In The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice, edited by Ian James Kidd, José Medina, and Gaile Pohlhaus Jr. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212043.