Dr. Beth Patin at Catholic University of America | Social Justice in Library and Information Science
Channel: Syracuse University iSchool
Date: 28/10/2021

Dr. Beth Patin, Assistant Professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, gave the The Sister Thea Bowman Lecture Series on Social Justice in Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America.

Dr. Patin's lecture, "The Ethics of Epistemic Justice: Addressing Epistemicide through Social Justice in LIS," asserts that the information professions need a paradigmatic shift to examine the ways we have systematically undermined knowledge systems falling outside of Western traditions. Dr Patin argues for an ethical shift to address these injustices within our programs, services, and curricula. 

Epistemicide is the killing, silencing, annihilation, or devaluing of a knowledge system. Epistemicide happens when epistemic injustices are persistent, systematic, and collectively work as a structured oppression of particular ways of knowing. Addressing epistemicide is critical for information professionals because we task ourselves with handling knowledge from every field. There must be a reckoning before the paradigm can truly shift; if there is no acknowledgement of injustice, there is no room for justice. 

Read more about Dr. Beth Patin's lecture: https://lis.catholic.edu/news-events/social-justice-lecture.html

Learn more about Beth Patin: https://ischool.syr.edu/beth-patin/

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