Reflections on epistemic injustice by a Régulationist

Lynne Chester

Chapter 8 in The Elgar Companion to Women and Heterodox Economics, 2025, pp 121-137 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: My journey as an academic scholar has not followed the conventional route. My journey to become a heterodox economist—a Régulationist—also had a long gestation. These pathways honed my ‘antennae’ to marginalization and discrimination. It was not until my career change to academia that I realized these ‘exclusions’ can cause several forms of epistemic injustice—unfair treatment in knowledge producing practices such as silencing, contribution misrepresentation, and diminished standing. In this chapter, I reflect on three episodes to illuminate different aspects of epistemic injustice within heterodoxy: how a knower is wronged; how knowers as knowers perpetrate epistemic injustice; and how social practices and institutions suppress and/or discredit contributions to knowledge. My experiences are unlikely to be unique nor can be attributable to my Régulationist perspective. Explicit identification—through direct experience—and analysis offers one form of resistance to epistemic injustice within heterodox economics.

Keywords: Epistemic Injustice; Epistemology; Knowledge; Power; Institutional Practices; Régulation Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035329304
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