SSA Ontology

Borrowed Voice

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Borrowed Voice

Scope note: Telling Someone’s Story Without Them

Speaking on behalf of marginalised people without sharing power, compensation, or the platform. Often framed as advocacy, but functions as appropriation.

Concept record

Canonical URI

https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/borrowed-voice/

Related concepts

No explicit related concepts in v0.1.

Status and licence

Published in SSA Ontology v0.1.0. Content licensed CC BY 4.0.

Machine-readable representation

The structured record below is also embedded in this page as JSON-LD.

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  "name": "Borrowed Voice",
  "description": "Speaking on behalf of marginalised people without sharing power, compensation, or the platform. Often framed as advocacy, but functions as appropriation.",
  "termCode": "borrowed-voice",
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      "name": "Glossary Of Narrative Laundering"
    }
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  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Sarah Ailish McLoughlin"
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Provenance

This concept was extracted from the original SSA Lexicon and republished as a stable ontology resource. Original source page(s): https://www.mcloughlin.world/ssa-lexicon/glossary-of-narrative-laundering/

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