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Volume 1, Issue 1

Data Over Dignity: Evidence Hierarchies in Disability Bureaucracies

Axel Andersen5 pages108 KB

Abstract

Drawing on the emerging field of Reverse Pathology, we analyse how disability systems construct implicit hierarchies of evidence that privilege bureaucratically convenient data while systematically devaluing lived experience, clinical judgement, and relational knowledge. This constitutes a form of epistemic injustice against disabled people whose knowledge is deemed unreliable by virtue of who they are. What is commonly described as 'rigour' is more accurately understood as administrative self-soothing.

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