Overcoming the epistemic injustice of colonialism
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Bhargava, Rajeev. (2013). Overcoming the epistemic injustice of colonialism. Global Policy. 4(4), pp. 413 - 417. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12093
Authors | Bhargava, Rajeev |
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Abstract | In this article I consider the epistemic injustice of colonialism. I define epistemic injustice as a form of cultural injustice that occurs when the concepts and categories by which a people understand themselves and their world is replaced or adversely affected by the concepts and categories of the colonizers. A deep problem today for the sufferers of epistemic injustice is that western categories both have an undeniable universal potential and they are fully intermingled with the specificity of western practices; worse, they bear a deep imprint of western domination and hegemony. I thus argue that we can neither ignore western ideas nor fully show how they can be rescued from the pernicious effects of their own imperial imprint. |
Year | 2013 |
Journal | Global Policy |
Journal citation | 4 (4), pp. 413 - 417 |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
ISSN | 1758-5899 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12093 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84887521027 |
Page range | 413 - 417 |
Research Group | Institute for Social Justice |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/87x9v/overcoming-the-epistemic-injustice-of-colonialism
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