We propose a geography that pluralizes the sites, practices and politics of authority. defend an approach tracks less perceptible forms authority emerging through everyday micropolitics experimental practices. In contrast to dominant definitions as institutionalized legitimate power, we define relation guidance from recognition inequalities in access truth, experience or objectivity. Analysing ...

In his recent book on the rise of modernity, Jonathan Israel argues that philosophers and philosophical ideas played a significant role in the transformation of opinions and attitudes across early modern Europe. In the seventeenth century, Cartesian philosophy in particular was at the forefront of the formation of modern concepts and institutions. Many aspects of Cartesianism are now seen as ty...

Why do we trust what other people say, and form beliefs on the basis of their speech? One answer: they are taken to have epistemic authority. Intuitively this means that the other person (or institution, or group) is taken to be authoritative in what they say, at least with respect to a particular domain. Here, we want to claim that there are (at least) two varieties of epistemic authority, one...