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Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic InjusticeIn Heaven Crawley & Joseph Kofi Teye (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 83-104. 2024.In this chapter, we take stock of existing critiques of contemporary migration research and bring these debates into contact with ongoing debates among decolonial scholars and in feminist social epistemology. We illustrate how the ethical and epistemic concerns voiced by migration scholars in regard to the socio-epistemic functioning of their field can be understood using the conceptual apparatus that has been developed around the notions of epistemic injustice and oppression. In so doing, we il…Read more
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13On epistemic freedom and epistemic injusticeInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.This article examines the relationship between epistemic freedom, and epistemic injustice and epistemic oppression. I situate epistemic freedom within the larger project of epistemic decolonisation and argue that epistemic freedom is central to both its positive and negative programme. Through exploring the intersections of the notion of epistemic freedom and the scholarship on epistemic injustice and oppression, I argue that one can think of epistemic injustices and oppression as infringements …Read more
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292On hermeneutical openness and wilful hermeneutical ignoranceLabyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 24 (1): 113-134. 2022.In this paper I argue for the relevance of the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer for contemporary feminist scholarship on epistemic injustice and oppression. Specifically, I set out to argue for the Gadamerian notion of hermeneutical openness as an important hermeneutic virtue, and a potential remedy for existing epistemic injustices. In doing so I follow feminist philosophers such as Linda Martín Alcoff and Georgia Warnke that have adopted the insights of Gadamer for the purpose of social and fe…Read more
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15Archives, Epistemic Injustice and Knowing the PastEthics and Social Welfare 15 (4): 379-394. 2021.In this essay, I argue that the destruction or hiding of archives can cause long-lasting epistemic harms and constitute complex ethical challenges. The case of Kenya’s ‘migrated archives’ is argued to be an example of how actions in the past can have long-lasting epistemic consequences and can cause contemporary epistemic injustices and harms related to one’s knowledge of the past. The perpetrators of such harms and injustices are argued to have a backward-looking epistemic responsibility and to…Read more
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24Decolonising knowledge production on Africa: why it’s still necessary and what can be doneJournal of the British Academy 9 (s1): 21-46. 2021.Contemporary debates on decolonising knowledge production, inclusive of research on Africa, are crucial and challenge researchers to reflect on the legacies of colonial power relations that continue to permeate the production of knowledge about the continent, its peoples, and societies. Yet these are not new debates. Sixty years ago, Ghana’s first president and pan-Africanist leader, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, highlighted the importance of Africa-centred knowledge. Similarly, in the 1980s, Cl…Read more
Nottingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Epistemic Injustice |
Feminist Epistemology |
Colonialism and Postcolonialism |
Applied Ethics |
Social Epistemology |