ABSTRACT
The framing of epistemology - what Mignolo refers to as a geopolitics of knowledge - will be the starting point for the examination of the relationship between decolonial approaches to "epistemology" and the topic of epistemic injustice. This chapter provides a brief history of decolonial thought and several related fields of study, including dependency theory and subaltern studies. This history importantly demonstrates that the concern with just and ethical knowing, as well as resistance to colonial epistemic violence predates the contemporary literature on epistemic injustice within academic Anglophone philosophy. The chapter considers the writings of several intellectuals who have existed both in the liminal spaces of "minority discourse" in the US and as critics of their own placement within academia of the Global North. It examines how the contemporary discourse of epistemic injustices might converge with the aims of a decolonial praxis in the Anglophone Western/Global Northern academy.
