| Title | Overcoming the Epistemic Injustice of Colonialism |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2013 |
| Authors | Bhargava, Rajeev |
| Journal | Global Policy |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pagination | 413-417 |
| ISSN | 1758-5899 |
| 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. |
| URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1758-5899.12093 |
| DOI | 10.1111/1758-5899.12093 |