The cognitive empire

Abstract

This chapter examines the cognitive empire and the epistemic injustice it has committed. It delves into how the cognitive empire deliberately imposed epistemic injustices and demonstrates how the so-called global economy of knowledge with its uneven intellectual and academic division of labor perpetuates epistemic injustices. The chapter proceeds to highlight how an expansive decolonial archive from Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Black radical tradition and feminist scholarship has grappled with the question of epistemic injustices. The third part of the chapter suggests decolonial ways of overcoming epistemic injustices drawing from the resurgent and insurgent decolonization of the twenty-first century. The last part highlights the concerns of the current conjuncture in the world of knowledge.