Epistemic Injustice and Violence: Exploring Knowledge, Power, and Participation in Philosophy and Beyond

The practice of philosophy has led to both emancipation and exclusion in society. Questions around how philosophy should be practiced, who should engage in it, and with which issues philosophy should deal are subject to debate and controversy. This volume is dedicated to the special role of epistemic injustice and violence in philosophy. By shedding light on the inherent unjust structures of academic philosophy, the contributors to this volume help to better understand this powerful tool that impacts the academic landscape as well as individual and collective ways of being. From graphic novel to philosophical essay, they design a concept of transformative philosophy and offer various entry points to the conversation.

Lena Schützle, born in 1991, works as a research associate at the chair for intercultural social transformation and the Center for Social and Development Studies at Hochschule für Philosophie München. Her research focuses on the phenomenology of compassion, epistemic injustice and violence, and transformative research.

Barbara Schellhammer, born in 1977, is a professor for intercultural social transformation and head of the Center for Social and Development Studies at Hochschule für Philosophie München. Her research focuses on peace and reconciliation as well as intercultural and transformative philosophy from the margins.

Anupam Yadav, born in 1968, is an assistant professor of philosophy in the department of humanities and social sciences at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India). Previously, she was a faculty member at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat and University of Hyderabad, Telangana. She works in the areas of hermeneutics, continental philosophy, aesthetics and feminist epistemology.

Cara-Julie Kather (she/they), born in 1999, is a PhD candidate at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in the field of feminist and decolonial epistemologies. Her PhD work revolves around critical analysis of mathematics as a discipline and as a way of thinking. Her writing aims to question existing narratives and modes of thought and to create new ones in midst of all the chaos that is marginalization.

Lou Thomine, born in 1996, is a PhD candidate in the Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT) at Universität zu Köln. She is interested in questions at the intersection of epistemology, social philosophy, and ethics.