Epistemic 'othering' and the decolonisation of knowledge

Epistemic 'othering' and the decolonisation of knowledge. Keet, A. Africa Insight, 44(1):23–37, June, 2014. Publisher: Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

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In this article I make the case that epistemic othering constitutes epistemic injustice, which is inscribed in the disciplinary formations of knowledge. As they help us produce our world, these formations, nowadays, preside over a considerable part of university practices and their conditions of privilege and disadvantage. The epistemic injustice within disciplines, so I argue, renders the collective interpretive resources required for epistemic justice structurally prejudiced. Using Fricker's notions of epistemic injustice and Foucault's distinction between savoir and connaissance, I suggest a new definitional framework for the decolonisation of knowledge with concomitant possibilities for innovative knowledge practices that view epistemic justice as central to the disruption of the disciplines.

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