Welcome to Litsy!

Often those without power suffer from what Fricker calls a ‘credibility deficit‘.

The philosopher Miranda Fricker has written on this economy of credibility, which she calls ‘epistemic justice‘. Epistemic justice raises questions about who knows what and who speaks for whom and it is an issue to grapple with for the referendum. (28-9)

You cannot lead if you do not read. Yet the National Party rejected the Voice in 2022 and committed to a ‘No‘ vote before even knowing the substance. (27)

On constitutional recognition, at each meeting, for each prime minister, each new Indigenous Affairs minister, we had to explain the process from scratch. Tom Calma, a former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, used to say to us as younger Aboriginal leaders, “leaders are readers.” (p27)

…the American sociologist Robert Merton, who identified five different ways people adapt to a prevailing order: conformity, innovation, ritualistic, retreatism and rebellion. Ritualistic means ‘the acceptance of institutionalised means for securing regulatory goals while losing all focus on achieving the goals or outcomes themselves‘. (p12)