1st Edition

Epistemic Injustice Governing Research Practice Within Academic Knowledge Production

Edited By Rebecca Lund, Jill Blackmore, Julie Rowlands Copyright 2025
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

This book illustrates how feminist knowledge and postcolonial knowledge are marginalized in universities due to policies, organizational structures, and knowledge hierarchies that privilege metrics as measures of success and narrow views of science and research. The changing relationship between the state and knowledge production is a critical issue for universities and governments when... Read more

Epistemic governance of diverse research practices and knowledge production: an

introduction

Rebecca Lund, Jill Blackmore and Julie Rowlands


1. Academic citizenship, collegiality and good university governance: a dedication

to Associate Professor Julie Rowlands (1964–2021)

Jill Blackmore and Rebecca Lund


2. Epistemic governance and the colonial epistemic structure: towards epistemic

humility and transformed South-North relations

Melanie Walker and Carmen Martinez-Vargas


3. The role of bibliometric research assessment in a global order of epistemic

injustice: a case study of humanities research in Denmark

Julie Rowlands and Susan Wright


4. The implicit epistemology of metric governance. New conceptions of motivational

tensions in the corporate university

Helene Aarseth


5. Building anti-racist education through spaces of border thinking

Joel Austin Windle and Érica Fonseca Afonso


6. Governing knowledge in the entrepreneurial university: a feminist account of structural,

cultural and political epistemic injustice

Jill Blackmore


7. Power, knowledge, and universities: Turkey’s dismissed ‘academics for peace’

Serhat Tutkal

Biography

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.