Epistemic Injustice

Rebecca Lund, PhD, is Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo. Her research draws on and develops feminist epistemology, critical social theory and methodology to explore how social relations of academic work are shaped by higher education policy, governance and organizational change. She has published in journals such as Gender, Work and Organization, Gender and Education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education and Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society. Jill Blackmore, AM PhD FASSA, is Deakin Distinguished Professor in Education at the Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. She undertakes research from a feminist perspective of education policy and governance; international and intercultural education; leadership and organisational change; and teachers' and academics’ work, health and well-being. Relevant publications include Disrupting Leadership in the Entrepreneurial University: Disengagement and Diversity (2023). Julie Rowlands, PhD was Associate Professor in the School of Education at the Faculty of Arts and Education, and former head of governance, both at Deakin University, Gellong Australia. Her research focused on university governance through the critical perspectives of feminist theory, policy sociology, and Bourdieu in particular. She published widely on the changing nature of university governance in Australia, the UK and USA and its effects on academic practices. Julie was associate editor of Critical Studies in Education from 2015 to 2021.

Epistemic governance of diverse research practices and knowledge production: an introduction 1. Academic citizenship, collegiality and good university governance: a dedication to Associate Professor Julie Rowlands (1964–2021) 2. Epistemic governance and the colonial epistemic structure: towards epistemic humility and transformed South-North relations 3. The role of bibliometric research assessment in a global order of epistemic injustice: a case study of humanities research in Denmark 4. The implicit epistemology of metric governance. New conceptions of motivational tensions in the corporate university 5. Building anti-racist education through spaces of border thinking 6. Governing knowledge in the entrepreneurial university: a feminist account of structural, cultural and political epistemic injustice 7. Power, knowledge, and universities: Turkey’s dismissed ‘academics for peace’