Epistemic Carcerality & Resistance in Higher Education

• In Event: Roundtable: Epistemic Carcerality: Exploring the Intersections of Epistemic Injustice and the Carceral State

Abstract

This paper introduces the term epistemic carcerality to refer to a form of epistemic oppression that is endemic to the carceral state. Using methods of empirically-engaged philosophy (Wilson & Santoro, 2015), we explore the contours of epistemic carcerality in the context of higher education both within carceral institutions (e.g., prisons) and on college campuses. We aim to establish epistemic carcerality as a valuable concept that identifies significant and unique epistemic harms encountered and resisted by system-involved people.

Authors

• Nicole Lindahl-Ruiz, University of California, Berkeley

• William Pierce, Education Justice Project