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Transmitting Understanding of Indigenous Genocide and Historical Hermeneutical Injustice

Transmitting Understanding of Indigenous Genocide and Historical Hermeneutical Injustice

Posted on 2 September 2024 by

A Mexica, or Aztec, scribe communicated part of his experience of the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City, as follows: Along the roads the splintered javelins lie, scalps are […]

A Case against the Argument from “Collective Amnesia” and “Forgetting”

A Case against the Argument from “Collective Amnesia” and “Forgetting”

Posted on 15 May 2023 by

The term collective amnesia is often used to analyse cases or states in which morally, socially and politically pertinent knowledge, such as knowledge about historical injustices, is (arguably) absent or […]