Knowledge Justice

3 credits · Graduate

Epistemic injustice is an injustice related to knowledge and one’s position as a “knower” or holder of knowledge. Epistemic injustice and related concepts such as epistemicide, epistemic oppression, and knowledge justice are of growing interest within the study of information and within information work. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to concepts and considerations of epistemic injustice, power, and the ways information organizations and practices are implicated as sites of injustice. Students will learn practices related to knowledge justice to work toward collective justice and the betterment of the field and the profession of information.