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Knowledge-specific epistemic injustice

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This article introduces knowledge-specific epistemic injustice as a third kind of epistemic injustice beside group-based or content-specific epistemic injustice. Knowledge-specific epistemic injustice is caused by a prejudice towards specific forms of knowledge, for example, practical, embodied, or experiential knowledge. The article shows that discounting these forms of knowledge silences knowers in a similar way as prejudice towards certain groups and their capacity as knowers. Thus, in order to achieve full epistemic justice and to overcome unjust power structures upheld by and based on unfairly distributed epistemic resources, all forms of epistemic injustice must be addressed.

Source: Inquiry

DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2025.2590055

Author: Kerstin Reibold

Institution: UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Language: English

Topic: Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Norges Forskningsråd