Epistemic injustice is defined as “a wrong done to someone in their capacity as a knower” (Carel & Györffy, 2014, p. 1256). This can occur when someone refuses to believe another person, often because of their race, gender, disability, or other identity. For example, ...Read more
Concept Theorised by the sister duo Barbara J. Fields (historian) and Karen E. Fields (sociologist) in their book The Soul of Inequality in American Life , racecraft means the set of practices that...Read more
Epistemic injustice is defined as “a wrong done to someone in their capacity as a knower” (Carel & Györffy, 2014, p. 1256). This can occur when someone refuses to believe another person, often because of their race, gender, disability, or other identity.
Diagram respresenting how the different forms of epistemic injustice are social injustices.
Epistemic injustice occurs
when companies provide misleading information about toxic chemicals
when community based research helps direct policy design.
Epistemic injustice occurs
when companies provide misleading information about toxic chemicals
when community based research helps direct policy design.
Environmental
