September 10, 2025The Philosophical QuarterlyOpen Access

Calling trauma, elite capture, and hermeneutical injustice

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Appeals to trauma can lead to epistemic distortion and hermeneutical injustice, affecting interpretations.
The analysis focuses on narratives of Portuguese decolonization framed around settler trauma and its implications.
Shifts in understanding hermeneutical justice highlight the importance of interpretation methods used and their beneficiaries.
Recognizing the productive applications of trauma framing complicates discussions around justice and understanding.

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Analysis reveals how appeals to trauma distort understanding in privileged groups, suggesting shifts in hermeneutical justice frameworks.

Carolina Flores (2025) studied this question.

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