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From “She Would Say That, Wouldn't She?” to “Does She Take Sugar?” Epistemic Injustice and Disability
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Epistemic injustice is the idea that social power ensures that the knowledge of some groups is excluded from the collective epistemic resources. In this paper, I argue that there are distinctive features of disabled life that, because they shape the processes through which knowledge is gathered, evaluated, judged, and disseminated, also influence the ways in which epistemic injustice is experienced by disabled people. These features include the ascription of a global epistemic incapacity to people affected by impairment. Against a background of contemporary political shifts and biotechnology innovation, the implications of epistemic injustice for disabled people are serious.
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“These infrastructural barriers then compound into epistemic violence , the systematic dismissal of disabled researchers' knowledge claims [21, 64].”
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“When evaluation systems conflate medium with quality, they create what Scully describes as hermeneutical injustice [64]: BLV researchers' contributions are undervalued because evaluative frameworks embody ableist assumptions about what recognizing excellence looks like.”
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- Authors
- Scully, J. L.
- Corresponding author
- Scully, Jackie Leach
- ORCID
- Scully, Jackie Leach
- Venue
- International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
- Published
- 2018-02
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 106-124
- ISSN
- 1937-4577 (ISSN-L)
- 1937-4585
- OpenAlex
- W2793317418
- Cited by
- 128
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 15.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (publishedVersion)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disability Rights and Representation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Keywords
- epistemic injustice, disability, people with disabilities, social power, knowledge production, epistemic exclusion, biotechnology
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