For example, many feminist analyses focus on the specific challenges that face the socially privileged and underprivileged when they try to know within contexts of oppression.
Discussions of epistemic injustice offer an excellent example of work focusing on the challenges of knowing in contexts of oppression, analyzing how many of the wrongs that occur within such contexts have both epistemic and ethical dimensions.
Supposedly more educated women practice this ritual, considering it a harmless tradition divorced from a wider context of gender oppression.
Their comfortability may relate to their identity, as students of color and undocumented students do not feel comfortable going to law enforcement due to historical context of systematic oppression.
(To those who carp about black people calling each other nigger in jest, I say, I don't love it, and it sets a poor example, but no matter how you try to spin it, due to the word's historical context and representation of oppression of blacks by whites, it's simply not the same).
If Arendt is right that American democracy is predicated on a relationship of legitimacy in which state power is ultimately accountable to the people, where is the possibility for social change in contexts of extreme oppression and disenfranchisement, in which violence is immanent to the dominant power structures and the politics they engender?
"When you have a client living in the context of some sort of oppression, the client is going to emerge with a very specific experience of what it means to live a life within that position," Smith continues.
If we view this effort of oppression within its context, a slightly different story starts to take shape.
Taken within the context of the feminist movement, this declaration of oppression was an event.
We examined qualitative research [ 8] that focused on socio-cultural understandings of Somali and Iraqi asylum seekers, refugees and persons without legal status living in Manchester (UK), identifying multiple forms of oppression to provide solid context to situate the current research.
