Butcher, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-4907-6092, Shafique, T., Recio, R.B. orcid.org/0000-0002-2063-054X et al. (1 more author) (2025) EPISTEMIC JUSTICE AND THE UNIVERSITY: Reclaiming the academy for emancipatory urban praxis. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. ISSN 0309-1317
Abstract
This essay offers provocations on the possibilities and challenges of advancing ‘epistemic justice’ in urban research, with particular care for the growing ‘academic precariat’. We explore some of the institutional barriers and possibilities of doing collaborative justice‐oriented work within urban and built environment scholarship, especially for those fixed‐term, early career, casual academics, independent scholars or those with career breaks. To do so, we refer to and reframe three concepts that are core within academic institutions: ethics, engagement and excellence. We explore the potentials of the urban as a site of political struggles, the projective potential of urban disciplines and the university as an urban actor to offer our intentionalities—alternative pathways—through which we can reclaim the radical role of the university towards an emancipatory urban praxis.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Epistemic justice; pluriversity; academic precariat; ECRs; co-production; urban praxis |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Geography and Planning |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2025 14:26 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 14:26 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13303 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1468-2427.13303 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:222009 |