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Undoing Epistemic Violence in Academic Knowledge Production through Survivors’ Participation: Learning from the Experiences of Yazidi Survivors

https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-39-1-30
Volume XXXIX • Issue 1/2 • 2023
Pages 30-49
Keywords: survivors, silencing, epistemic violence, epistemicide, decolonising academia  

Abstract

In this paper, common experiences of survivors of the Yazidi genocide of being silenced in academic knowledge production processes and (higher) education are discussed (as examples of doing epistemic violence). Based on this, we formulate recommendations to the academic community and derive first proposals for the implementation of these in the areas of research and teaching (as examples of undoing epistemic violence). By this means, we want to contribute to a process that initiates a thorough discussion on the ethical, equal, and permanent participation of survivors in academic knowledge production processes.

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