from Epistemic Injustice by Miranda Fricker
Related to social power
Types of epistemic injustice:
- Testimonial Injustice: giving a deflated level of credibility to a speaker’s word for no other reason other than identity prejudice in a way that harms the speaker
- Hermeneutical Injustice: the injustice of having some significant area of one’s social experience obscured from collective understanding owing to hermeneutical marginalization
Learning new epistemic resources is difficult for multiple reasons
- Lack of trust between groups
- Dominantly situated knower being unwilling to confront destabilizing truths
- Reluctance or inability of dominant group to recognize the value of the epistemic resources they’re being taught