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What is Epistemic Injustice

A Cross-Cultural Examination of Women in Higher Education and the Workplace
Epistemic injustice is pertains to knowledge which is used to misrepresent, exclude or silence authentic meaning. Often this can emanate from inequity in terms of power relations which has the potential to diminish value of the perceptions and opinions of underrepresented or marginalised individuals or communities.
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The Western Gaze and African Feminism: Twin Peaks in the Global Higher Education Workforce
Catherine Hayes (University of Sunderland, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0102-9.ch009
Abstract
This chapter serves as a mechanism of recognizing and acknowledging the illegitimacy of historic and traditional western approaches to narratives of African feminist epistemology. These approaches have engendered lenses of perspective which are irrefutably skewed by colonialism and whose address is warranted in ensuring both a means of learning about the end of an era and the prospect of a more authentically framed future framed, shaped, and determined from within African culture and context by those. To undertake this acknowledgement and recognition is one of the first and much belated to framing steps in ensuring that the articulation of truth lies best with those whose lived truths they are, rather than any tokenistic perceptions of them, consequently articulated through Western lenses of perspective.
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Hermeneutical Injustice via Interpretive Harm: Epistemologies of Change for Structural Oppression in Africa
Epistemic injustice is pertains to knowledge which is used to misrepresent, exclude or silence authentic meaning. Often this can emanate from inequity in terms of power relations which has the potential to diminish value of the perceptions and opinions of underrepresented or marginalised individuals or communities.
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Westernising African Feminist Epistemology: Doxastic Injustice or Hermeneutical Ignorance?
Epistemic injustice is pertains to knowledge which is used to misrepresent, exclude or silence authentic meaning. Often this can emanate from inequity in terms of power relations which has the potential to diminish value of the perceptions and opinions of underrepresented or marginalised individuals or communities.
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