Editorial
Epistemic Disobedience: Theorising Anti-Blackness, an Editorial Overview
The Australian journal of social issues, Vol.First online
21/08/2026
Appears in Recent Faculty of Health Publications
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Abstract
For most Afro-Black scholars, writing honestly, critically and authentically about Black and African experiences is a political act. Their resistance and what Tuck and Yang (2014) call a ‘refusal’ to be written for and about is an exercise in ‘epistemic disobedience’ (Mignolo 2009) or the expression of epistemic dignity. This disobedience is a form of reclaiming dignity that helps us to chart alternative paths that are de-linked from the colonial and white supremacist matrices of power that currently dominate Black anti-racism discussions and analyses. In this way, Afro-Black or Black-centred scholars are faced with the task of pushing the boundaries of knowledge in a direction that seeks to ‘re-position those who have been objects of research into questioners, critics, theorists, knowers, and communicators’ (S. J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2017, 4).
Details
- Title
- Epistemic Disobedience: Theorising Anti-Blackness, an Editorial Overview
- Creators
- Finex Ndhlovu - University of New EnglandKathomi Gatwiri - Flinders University
- Publication Details
- The Australian journal of social issues, Vol.First online
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 4
- Identifiers
- 991013398171802368
- Copyright
- © 2026 Australian Social Policy Association.
- Academic Unit
- Centre for Children and Young People; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Editorial