linguistic epistemic injustice

📖 Definitions

A type of epistemic injustice that occurs due to linguistic power relations (language provides different opportunities and obstacles to to members of different linguistic groups) and linguistic bias (different languages provide different ways of apprehending and knowing the world)

💡 Examples

• Academic migrants. "despite their philosophical competence and sincerity, they are exposed to undue credibility or intelligibility deficits in AAAP because of biases that interfere with credibility or intelligibility allocations." (Catala, 2022, p. 331)

🔗 Relations

• type of: epistemic injustice

📚 References

• Catala, Amandine. 2022. “Academic Migration, Linguistic Justice, and Epistemic Injustice.” Journal of Political Philosophy 30 (3): 324–46. https: doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12259.

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