Tag: epistemic injustice

Knowledge Is Power - Chernobyl after 40 Years

Why Do We Believe What We Believe? Sociology, Knowledge, and the Crisis of Truth

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Forty years after Chernobyl, the reactor sits under a vast steel sarcophagus constructed to contain what could not be unseen. The facts eventually surfaced – but at what cost, and why did it take so long? Drawing on Mannheim, Fricker, Arendt, and Oreskes, this article asks what the sociology of knowledge reveals about the structural conditions under which truth is managed, suppressed, and contested – from Soviet nuclear cover-ups to contemporary populism.

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AI and Bernstein

Talking to the Machine: AI, Language Codes, and the Reproduction of Inequality

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This article explores how generative AI systems reinforce class-based linguistic hierarchies by privileging elaborated codes aligned with middle-class norms, drawing on Bernstein’s theory of language and sociological critiques of educational inequality.

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Anguished Doctoral Student

Reflexive but Unrecognised: Misreading Critical Research in the Doctoral Review

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Doctoral progress reviews are framed as supportive and developmental. Yet for candidates pursuing reflexive, critical, or non-linear research, they often become spaces of misrecognition—where methodological ambiguity is pathologised, and intellectual risk is penalised. This article interrogates how audit logics, shaped by structures like the REF, reframe scholarly inquiry as compliance. It argues for a higher education culture that values complexity, temporal nuance, and epistemic diversity over bureaucratic legibility.

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