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From Reification to La Facultad: Autotheory and the Transformation of Epistemic Privilege

Both Marxist standpoint theory, and decolonial epistemologies ground knowledge claims in embodied experience, particularly the experience of oppressed groups. Central to both traditions is the concept of epistemic privilege: the thesis that marginalized positions (the proletariat, women*, the colonized, the subaltern)...