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Disability Epistemology

Who gets believed? How does "evidence" work in disability systems? Articles on lived experience, epistemic injustice, and knowledge hierarchies.

3 articlesTags: evidence, epistemic-injustice, lived-experience, epistemology

Articles in this series

Vol. 2, No. 3

Creativity as Containment: A Structural Analysis of Neurotypical Tolerance for Imagination and Intolerance for Intuition

Axel Andersen20 Dec 20245 pages

This paper examines a persistent cultural phenomenon: neurotypical populations enthusiastically endorse 'creativity' while demonstrating marked discomfort toward intuition, shared consciousness, or other forms of non-linear knowing frequently reported by neurodivergent individuals. We propose that creativity is socially tolerated because it is symbolically contained within the domain of fiction, whereas intuition implies unsanctioned access to pattern recognition without hierarchical approval.

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Vol. 1, No. 1

Data Over Dignity: Evidence Hierarchies in Disability Bureaucracies

Axel Andersen20 Sept 20245 pages

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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Vol. 1, No. 1

Inclusion Was Never Optional, You Just Treated It Like Formatting

Axel Andersen1 June 20242 pages

Inclusion has long been positioned as an adjunct to scholarship: a post-hoc consideration applied after intellectual work is complete. This framing is untenable. Recent scholarship on Paired Inclusive Research Dissemination (PIRD) makes explicit what disabled scholars have experienced for decades: the inclusive artefact is not a translation of scholarship—it IS scholarship. This editorial argues that disability research has historically mined disabled people for data while stripping their contributions of authorship and attribution.

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