Dates and Times
22 August 2023
11:00 - 12:00
Event for
Location
Organiser
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Speakers
Kei Nishiyama
Enquiry
Event about:
Compounding injustice: Youth climate activism and epistemic oppressions in the public sphere
This event is hybrid. Join us on Zoom or at Building 24, University of Canberra.
Compounding injustice: Youth climate activism and epistemic oppressions in the public sphere
Compounding injustice is a form of epistemic injustice in a broader sense that demotivates, disempowers and prevents a person’s resistance against injustice. Unlike similar concepts that focus on one’s simultaneous experience of injustice (known as double or multiple injustice), compounding injustice elucidates one’s sequential experiences of injustice, which occurs in the following specific order: (1) confronting the primary injustice, (2) engaging in epistemic resistance to raise awareness about the injustice and/or mobilise the masses to demand solutions, (3) confronting epistemic oppression as the secondary injustice; (4) engaging in protection for resistance to guard oneself from the secondary injustice and to continue the resistance against the target primary injustice; and (5) using time and energy to address both the primary and secondary injustice, thereby feeling exhausted and suffering burnout. To show how compounding injustice emerges in the on-the-ground setting, I draw on a story of youth climate activists in Japan. The story is informed by my 2-year ethnographic field research with members of Fridays For Future Kyoto.
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About the speaker
Dr. Kei Nishiyama is a Lecturer at Faculty of Education at Kaichi International University in Japan and Associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at University of Canberra in Australia. With deliberative theories, Kei studies democratic education in the classroom and children/young people’s political experience in the public sphere. In the past 2.5 year, Kei has engaged in an ethnographic study with Japanese youth climate activists to investigate their experience of deliberation and communicative oppressions in the public sphere.
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