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This edited collection illuminates what the concept of a specifically epistemic type of injustice has to offer socio-legal analysts. The epistemic aspects of injustice comprise more than knowledges, meaning and understanding, to include the supporting material and discursive (infra)structures for their production and dissemination arising in space/place/time. This book focuses on legal and regulatory arrangements, and the forms of knowledge and meaning they carry and with which they interact, in order to bring to light their spatial and place-relatedness or boundedness, which includes their temporal dimensions at various scales.
These highly innovative studies of epistemic injustice encompass the responsibilisation of patients in the North of England and Northern Ireland, housing, the systemic operations of law, the construction of digital spaces by algorithms, hospital discharges, case law affecting Indigenous communities in Kenya, the experience of mining disaster in Brazil, and the perspectives of rare diseases patients in Austria during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The book contributes towards law and geography, in particular through the emphasis on temporality as part of space and place. By highlighting the importance of author positionality and reflexivity, and pausing so as to bolster the development of humility and sensitivity for more fully informed studies on epistemic injustice and its ameliorations, the book also advances methodology for future studies.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction (Mark L Flear, Ceri Davies-Tyrie and Daniel Wincott).- Chapter 2. Responsibilisation of NHS Patients: Revealing Epistemic Injustice through Street Legal Ethnography in the North of England and Northern Ireland (Mark L Flear, Ivanka Antova, Matthew Wood and Tamara K Hervey).- Chapter 3. Housing Injustices and Epistemic Injustice
(Helen Carr and David Cowan).- Chapter 4. Epistemic Injustice and the Rule of Law (TT Arvind).- Chapter 5. The Algorithmic Construction of Epistemic Injustice (Tomás McInerney).- Chapter 6. Testimonial Injustice and the Regulatory Liminal Space of Hospital Discharges (Victoria L Moore).- Chapter 7. Revealing Epistemic Injustice in the African Commission s Reading of Indigeneity: The Case of the Endorois (Raghavi Viswanath) .- Chapter 8. Disaster, Place and Epistemic Injustice (Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês and Edward Kirton-Darling).- Chapter 9. Silenced Expertise: Knowing the Pandemic from the Perspectives of Patients with Rare Diseases in Austria (Antonia Modelhart and Barbara Prainsack).- Chapter 10. Conclusions (Mark L Flear, Ceri Davies-Tyrie and Daniel Wincott).
About the author
Mark L Flear is Professor of Law and Socio-Legal Studies, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom.
Ceri Davies-Tyrie is Head of Deliberative Engagement at Ipsos UK and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.
Daniel Wincott is Blackwell Professor of Law and Society, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, United Kingdom.
Summary
This edited collection illuminates what the concept of a specifically epistemic type of injustice has to offer socio-legal analysts. The epistemic aspects of injustice comprise more than knowledges, meaning and understanding, to include the supporting material and discursive (infra)structures for their production and dissemination arising in space/place/time. This book focuses on legal and regulatory arrangements, and the forms of knowledge and meaning they carry and with which they interact, in order to bring to light their spatial and place-relatedness or boundedness, which includes their temporal dimensions at various scales.
These highly innovative studies of epistemic injustice encompass the responsibilisation of patients in the North of England and Northern Ireland, housing, the systemic operations of law, the construction of digital spaces by algorithms, hospital discharges, case law affecting Indigenous communities in Kenya, the experience of mining disaster in Brazil, and the perspectives of rare diseases patients in Austria during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The book contributes towards law and geography, in particular through the emphasis on temporality as part of space and place. By highlighting the importance of author positionality and reflexivity, and pausing so as to bolster the development of humility and sensitivity for more fully informed studies on epistemic injustice and its ameliorations, the book also advances methodology for future studies.
