1st Edition
Epistemic Injustice and Resistance in Social Work Rethinking Social Justice in Practice, Education, and Research
1. Understanding the Epistemic Domain in Social Work to Foster Social Justice
Eunjung Lee
PART 1: Imagining Social Work Ethics, Theory, Research and Practice toward Epistemic Justice
2. Epistemic Ethics Justice in Social Work: Developing a Critical Consciousness
Bibiana D. Koh
3. Transformative Social Work and Epistemic Justice
Karen Bell, Bernadette Moorhead, Jacqueline McNamara, and Wendy Bowles
4. Epistemic Injustice in Community-Based Participatory Research: Toward Embodying Decolonial Ethical Relationality, Sentipensante, and Accountable Praxis in Social Work
Catalina Tang Yan
5. Confronting Epistemic Injustice in Everyday Social Work Practice
Eunjung Lee
PART 2: Interrogating Epistemic Injustice in Social Work Practice with the Marginalized
6. Epistemic Injustice and Youth Mental Health: The Role of Social Workers in Promoting Epistemically Just Practice
Andrea Greenblatt
7. Epistemic Injustice in the Context of Contested Diagnoses: Dismissal and Delegitimation in the Face of Complex Evidence
Ulla-Karin Schön and Noam Ringer
8. “Not Sick Enough”: How Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance and Agential Testimonial Injustice Shape the Clinical Care of Street-Involved and Homeless Youth with Eating Struggles
Christina Hyland
9. The Absence of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Voices and Knowledge in UK Health and Social Work
Peter Unwin and Jackie Bolton
10. Reflecting on the Epistemic Silencing of People in the Sex Trades Within the Anti-Trafficking Movement in the United States
Ran Hu
11. Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Epistemic Injustice: Case Studies on Forcibly Displaced Groups, Persons living with Disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ Community
12. Unrecognized Truths: The Impact of Epistemic Injustice on LGBTQIA+ Communities
Vivien Roman-Hampton and Gio Iacono
13. Tracing the Layers of Epistemic Injustice in Social Constructions of Aging and Older Adults: Implications for Gerontological Social Work
Manaal Syed
14. Challenging Epistemic Injustice Through More Inclusive Discourse: A Standpoint from Service Users’ Lived Experiences
Peter Beresford
Biography
Eunjung Lee, PhD, MSW, RSW, is Professor and Endowed Chair in Mental Health & Health at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada.
Andrea Greenblatt, PhD, MSW, is Assistant Director at Ontario SPOR Support Unit, Toronto, Canada.
Ran Hu, PhD, MSW, MA, is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University College of Social Work, USA.
“As a philosopher, I found it fascinating to read these new employments of concepts of epistemic injustice in the sphere of social work—its theory and its practice. In their developments of theoretical ideas energized through application in a range of contexts and perspectives across professional social work, these contributions are testament to the practical power of abstract ideas.”
Miranda Fricker, Professor at New York University and Author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
“Social work, even in its most radical versions, cannot claim to promote social justice without taking an honest look at its own assumptions. In particular, it must scrutinize the underlying processes of knowledge production. From multiple personal, political, and professional viewpoints, this collection powerfully invites us to do precisely that: to engage with uncomfortable questions that may unsettle the self-images of anti-oppressive and critical social work practitioners. Doing so enables us to open up important and timely avenues for revisiting and strengthening the emancipatory potential of the profession.”
Jasna Russo, Professor at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany
“This timely and seminal volume offers a powerful exploration of what counts as knowledge for equitable and socially just social work. It should be essential reading for students, practitioners, and researchers seeking to understand what knowledge matters in social work and how it should be developed and applied in practice.”
Reima Ana Maglajlic, Reader, Head of Department of Social Work and Social Care at the University of Sussex
