Epistemic injustice

Harms that relate specifically to how we are trusted, believed, and valued as knowers, interpreters, and providers of information. This concept was defined by Miranda Fricker (2007), who identified two key forms of epistemic injustice: testimonial injustice (where testimony is unduly dismissed because of prejudiced beliefs regarding minority groups); and hermeneutical injustice (where a community’s shared vocabularies have been structured in a way that unfairly distorts or stifles understanding for, and of, a minority group).