epistemicide

English

Etymology

From Portuguese epistemicídio, coined by Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Equivalent to episteme/epistemic + -(i)cide.

Noun

epistemicide (countable and uncountable, plural epistemicides)

  1. The destruction of (a targeted people or group's) knowledge.

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Further reading

  • 2022 October 25, Shane Burley, No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis, AK Press, →ISBN:
    […] epistemicídio (epistemic genocide). Epistemicídio is the genocide of identities (ancestral knowledge, culture, language, and so on) through forced assimilation into white Western society.
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