By Sevil Suleymani - October 15, 2025
Across post-colonial and Global South scholarship, a growing body of work has shed light on how colonial legacies and global hierarchies shape knowledge production. Yet, even within these critical frameworks, voices from within the Global South, especially women from marginalized communities, are often excluded or misrecognized. Scholars such as Gayatri Spivak, Chandra Mohanty, and Lila Abu-Lughod have long argued that women in the Global South are not merely subjects of oppression but thinkers whose epistemic contributions are routinely devalued. They face layered forms of marginalization within both national contexts and transnational academic spaces, with epistemic injustice emerging as one of the most pervasive mechanisms of exclusion. Miranda Fricker’s work on epistemic injustice has been particularly influential in exposing how people are wronged in their capacity as knowers, primarily through testimonial and hermeneutical deficits. In the case of marginalized women in the Global South, these injustices occur when they speak and/or begin long before that, in the very frameworks that determine who gets to speak and whose words are heard.
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